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Virtual Lab: Van de Graaff Generators
University of Virginia
             
 
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This is how the generator looks in the real world.

Plug it in and flip on the power switch.

Then, as you turn up the control knob, you can hear a motor building speed.

A short time later the dome of the generator begins to build up a strong electric charge.

 
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