So, as it turns out, scientists are stumped by the whole charged Styrofoam Cup bending a thin stream of water. There were two competing hypotheses, both debunked by scientist and also confirmed by myself - anybody can test and disprove this explanation through experimentation at home, as I just did. It was thought at first that it was due to the dipole nature of water molecules, the same reason your microwave is able to heat up yesterdays leftovers, but not so. It was thought that the negative side of the water molecule would flip away from the negatively charged cup and due to the force being inversely proportional to the distance squared, the cup would have a stronger attraction to the positive end of the dipole that it would have a repulsion to the further negative end and the net charge would bend the water molecules and therefore the stream toward the negatively charged cup. This is easily dis-proven by back of the envelope calculations though since, like gravity, such an attraction would ultimately become stronger, escapes velocities would need to increase, to keep the stream from ultimately getting close enough to discharge the cup if not crush into the cup to forever stay there - just as gravity. Scientist would rightfully abandon the previously mentioned hypothesis for the negatively charged ions escaping up the tap. This would also be debunked by the Youtube user and Chemist Thunderfoot. Ill attack his video below. So where does that leave us? Welp, with yet another mystery that anyone can try and solve in their own homes with household materials. Good luck! youtu.be/3Ev_k__U3Io?list=UUmb8hO2ilV9vRa8cilis88A
Posted on: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 21:30:18 +0000
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