Monthly Archives: April 2009

Fun Fly Stick: Electrostatic Exploration

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Buzz Putnam

The Fun Fly Stick is a toy that appears to magically “levitate” and repel objects after the teacher presses the button on the handle. What makes the Fun Fly Stick operate is a scientific principle of static electricity that Robert Van de Graaff utilized some 75 years ago. What Van de Graaff originally developed, was a device which produced very high voltages that were needed to accelerate particles to energies high enough to create new elements.

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