 Welcome back to Kids Fun Science. My name is Ken. Today's experiment is the VandyGraph Generator. As always, adult supervision is required. What you need for this experiment is a VandyGraph Generator, which you can see in the description where I got it, and a trusting volunteer. Alright, welcome back to Kids Fun Science. Today we have the VandyGraph Generator, which generates static electricity. My name is Ken, and... Electrograce! We have Electrograce, and so she's going to help assist in with these experiments. The VandyGraph is also known as a big, shiny... Spear! Yes, zapping or electrical spear, right? So we're going to show you a whole bunch of different experiments from your fake hair... And real hair! Yes, and we have a couple other cool ones. So we'll get back to you and show you those next. Alright, so Grace, the VandyGraph Generator generates 200,000 to 300,000 volts of electricity, right? So currents. So a 9 volt battery, how many volts is there? 9. 9. And this has 200,000 to 300,000 volts. And a socket in the wall has how many volts? 120. 120. So 120, if you put your hand in the socket there, would you get electrocuted? Yes. That's why you do not put your hand in there, right? So do you think when you touch this with your hand, are you going to get electrocuted? Yeah. No, no, no. Because currents are different, right? So this is 200 to 300,000 volts, but the current is low volts, right? Where that's high volts inside the wall there. So you will not. But we'll make sure we're safe on that, and we're going to test first your hair. Okay? All right. All right. So the first experiment, are you in it? All right. So the first experiment is we're going to do a zapping of this, right? So I'm going to turn off the lights so you can see the spark coming off it. So let me turn it off. We have a light. Oh, it's a light. Okay. So here we are. We're going to do the real hair first before we do the fake hair. We're going to take off your wrist bracelet too. Wait, this one? Yeah, you just throw those on the back for it. Yeah. And what we're going to do is we see Grace is standing on a milk carton. So what that does is she's on the floor, she would be grounded, and then all the static electricity would go through her body down into the ground. With her being on the milk carton, it's going to stay within her body, and hopefully go in her hair, and we're going to raise her hair up, okay? So I'm going to turn it on, and then we're going to go from there. Okay? Okay. I promise you mom, nothing will happen. Put your hands on first, and here we go on. I see your hair already going up a little bit. Yeah, it's going good. Shake, give her a good shake. Flex your hair. Yeah, give her a good shake. Whoa. That's making me look like I'm in here. Now watch what I'm going to do is I'm going to point my finger to her. I'm going to point my finger towards it, right? It goes down. Shake it. You feel it going up? Right above me. Oh, yeah. All right. I'm going to turn it off here one second. All right. So what I'm going to do is I take the wand, and what I do is turn off the bandograph. I'm going to, you're going to hit a spark. Did it get you? No. No. Because you heard the sparks, so you jumped, right? Yeah. Now you can take your hands off and nothing happens. Yeah. But you see her hair? All right. So that's how it works. I'm real hair. Now we're going to try some fake hair, and then we'll go for it. Okay. All right. So Grace said it's not fair for her to do it herself. I have to do it. I don't have long hair. So let's see how it works. Who says gray? Electrograce. Yeah. Okay. Here we go. I'm on. So immediately I start to feel the hair on my legs, which you can't see, but they're all standing up straight. Now I start feeling my hair on my head. Go. Now it's working. It's kind of. No? Yeah. It's there. Okay. Now take off one hand. You can do one. The electricity is still going through. It doesn't matter if it's one or two. You never want to let go of both hands. Because then it will show. Is it going? Yeah. Is it good? Good or no? Yeah. It's like high. It's actually like two. Right there? I don't have long enough hair out there. But it's like right there. See? Touch it? And it goes down. Touch. His electrons are jumping off my hair onto you. Yeah. And I'm getting there. There it goes. That's how it works. And this is the VandyGraph. And we'll come right back. All right. So the science behind the VandyGraph generator. The VandyGraph generator uses static electricity with moving belts to charge the large metal sphere that's on top of it with a very high voltage, 200 to 300,000 volts. If you put your hands on the VandyGraph generator like ElectroGrace is doing here, it will make your hair stand up. It works by static electricity, like shuffling your feet across the carpet or shocking yourself by the doorknob. Right? We've all done that before. The big rubber bands move over a piece of felt and strip away the felt's electrons. The electrons move up the rubber belt band to the metal ball into the person. These electrons repel each other. They try to get as far away as each other as possible. When we see this effect with the ElectroGrace's hair here, it moves as far away from the body as it can. If you touch the generator, all the electricity will go through your body, giving you a huge shock. So it can actually be dangerous. But you can protect yourself by grounding, by standing on a piece of rubber or like the plastic milk crate that we're doing. This plastic milk crate is an insulator since the charges cannot travel through them very easily. So when you touch the generator now, the charges cannot go to the ground. And now you fill up with all the electrons, forcing your hair to repel. Okay, so what we're going to do here is we're going to turn it off, right? Once it stops, you're going to take your hands off it and your hair is still going to stay up. One hand at a time. Other hand. Now, wait, wait. Before you get down, you're on an insulated box. So once you go down, your hair will all go down right when you step off. Okay, one, two, three. And it all drops. Because you're grounded, everything fell off your body. Yep. All right, before we do the fake hair, we're going to do this little pony hair or something. Come on over here, Grace. We're going to stick it right in here. And then we're going to turn it on. And we're going to see what it does. Whoa. It goes all the way up. Don't touch it. Don't touch the spear. It just crackles. Yeah. Do a top high. See how it comes to you? Yeah. Actually, it doesn't hurt when it spikes. No, it's just sound. It's the sound. Yeah. Okay, so we're going to stop there. Okay, so we have like about six pie pans now. And by the way, can I eat all the pie in one? Yeah. And we're going to put them on top of this before it goes. All right. And then we're going to turn it on. You want to turn it on there? There's the soup. See, it kind of seems like pie. Like I'm not pie. It kind of seems like a top high. That one was so much better. That was so cool. All right, here we go. Get ready. Go ahead and put your hands on. Ready? Yeah, me too. Feel your hair, but the fake hair is not really going. Shake it a little. A little bit starting to go. I feel like it's going to pop off. I think it's too, this wig is too clumped. Yeah. Yeah, it's coming off. It's really not working. Okay. All right, so we've got a different wig. We think this wig is going to be a little bit better than the last one. So let's check it out. Because it's a little... Last clumpy. It's good. On the milk crate. Here we go. We should do you and see how it is. I'll do my hair next. So I don't see you got a little bit of a shake. I know you don't want to fall off, but I don't really see it. A little bit is going up in the back. So let's go here. We can see it's had going up a little bit, but nothing like your hair. Right? Yeah. I don't think this one's going to really work. I started to go up in the back a little bit, but I think it's too clumpy for electro-grace here. So, all right. Well, it's a fail. AKA the description box. And leave a like on this video and subscribe. Dad, pretty much it. And thanks for watching. Yeah.