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Student Science Page

This section of the website concentrates on Junior/Senior Science. Years 9 - 11, ages 13 - 16 (up to NCEA level 1).

• Click Science links for a set of internet links to websites that I may or may not use in my teaching.
• Click Year 11 for the 2007 NCEA level 1 calendar.

IN-FAQs
The e i owl Answers Your Scientific Questions

Here is a collection of scientific explanations. You all know about FAQs - Frequently Asked Questions.
Well, these are IN-Frequently Asked Questions.

• Cling Film - how does it work?
  Not by static electricity but by a thin film of oil. If you think about it, if static electricity was the clinging force, if a sheet folded in on itself, it should repel. Also, if you have seen the Van der Graaff generator experiments, the charge would leak and the film unstick itself if you hold the film with one hand and touched a tap with the other - which it does not.

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