As promised, a couple of pictures from my Museum of Science (Boston) visit.
(1) The van de Graff generator with D. and me in a cage as it is struck by "lightning". You can see Franklin's kite in the lower-left part of the picture:
(2) One of the weather radar exhibits, explained by J.
didn't we get an explanation of this is Balu Sir's class about two giant spheres holding enough charge etc. etc.
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yeah, but never sank in how big the charged spheres needed to be.
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