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a girl rubs a balloon on her head and then holds it a short distance away. why does her hair stick to the balloon?

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Answer:

Although the charge on her head is initially zero, rubbing causes some of the electrons to be transferred from her hair to the balloon (or vice versa, the problem does not state the direction of the transfer).

There is now a charge imbalance between her head and the balloon, and there is now a force between her hair and the balloon.

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