Electrifying Experiments: Science of Static!

How does a Van de Graaff generator make your hair stand on end? Museum Educator Locke explains how there are positive and negative electric charges in everything, which are constantly pushing and pulling on each other. A Van de Graaff generator collects negative charges, which can be transferred to the body. There, they push against each other, causing each strand of hair to be repelled away from the others!