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Hi--I am Art Krakowsky
I am an Electronics Engineer
I volunteer at Jackson Ave School
Grades 4 and 5
The students call me Doctor K
TWO kinds of electric energy
Static Electricity
Current Electricity
A few thousand volts
Van de GraaffBorn 1901
Invented static electricity generator in 1929
This is the generator we will use today
Here is a biggerVan de Graaff
generator
An even bigger one!
A giant Van de Graaff generator
The biggest--25 Million Volts
Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee
Electrons jump onto the belt at the bottom
Electrons jump off the belt at the top
One of the properties of matter
Where the electrons go when two things are rubbed together
Static Electricity
Everyone stays seated and pretty quiet so the volunteer can hear