Dirty Laundry!

I have been having to do my own laundry for the past several years. Opening up the dryer to throw my clothes in....I remembered how static electricity takes place inside of a normal dryer. Static electricity is caused by friction in which two different objects come in contact/rub with eachother, creating somewhat of a "charge." Static electricity is much more prevalent and can be created easier in dryer places. Therefore a clothes dryer is an ideal place for static electricity to occur, due to the dryness of the area as well as the friction created with the tumbling of clothes. When pulling the clothes out from the dryer, you may sometimes feel a charge on your skin which causes the hair to rise, this is because the clothes are now CHARGED!

Ski Lift = Capacitor

When Mr. Kohara was first explaining what a capacitor was and related it to a ski lift, at first I did not see the relation. After looking over some pictures from my past ski trip, I finally made the correlation. A ski lift is just like a capacitor in the fact that when the skiier goes up the mountain on the lift, it is just like a battery recharging the capacitor and when the skiier gets off the lift and races down the mountain (with its gained charge), it is just like the capacitor releasing all its charge at once. These pictures were taken on my ski trip to Big White last spring break. Now I can finally relate to how/why a ski lift is just like a capacitor. The skiier gains charge going up the mountain; releases all that gained charge when quickly coming down...