My wife who puts up balloons in a store says it is because the helium escapes through the pores in the balloon. If you also use a product called 'Hi-Flot' they will stay up longer.
When a balloon becomes statically charged, it creates an imbalance of positive and negative charges. When the balloon is then brought close to a wall, the charged balloon can induce opposite charges in the wall, resulting in an attraction force that temporarily holds the balloon in place. However, once the charges neutralize or dissipate, gravity takes over and the balloon falls off.
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When you rub a balloon against your hair or a wool sweater, the balloon becomes negatively charged by picking up electrons. The wall or surface it is brought close to may have a positive charge, which attracts the negatively charged balloon due to electrostatic forces, causing it to stick to the wall.
On a hot humid day, the air is less dense, which means there is less air resistance acting on the balloon as it falls off the wall. This decreased air resistance allows the balloon to fall more quickly compared to a cooler, less humid day.
Balloons may stick to a knit sweater, but normally the electromagnetic force will oppose it. However, once a balloon is rubbed on a sweater, it can stick to a wall (or other surface) by creating an electrostatic (magnetic) field with the stationary wall.
A balloon that has a static electric charge can stick to a wall because opposite charges attract each other. The balloon carries a negative charge, while the wall carries a positive charge (due to electrons being transferred from the wall to the balloon). This attraction between the opposite charges causes the balloon to stick to the wall.
Rubbing a balloon against a wall transfers electrons from the wall to the balloon, giving the balloon a negative charge. This charge causes the balloon to stick to the wall due to electrostatic attraction.
When a charged balloon is brought close to a wall, the charges on the balloon induce an opposite charge on the wall due to electrostatic induction. This causes the wall to be attracted to the balloon. If the charges on the balloon are strong enough, the wall may even stick to the balloon momentarily.
The negatively charged balloon initially clings to the wall due to electrostatic attraction. Eventually, it could fall due to factors such as air currents, material properties, or the weakening of the electrostatic forces over time.
electrons are transferred from your hair to the balloon . so ballon gets a negative charge . so there is a transfer of energy when you rub your hair with balloon and static electricity is producedP.S. : HAIR SHOULD BE DRY
When you place the balloon against the wall, it induces a separation of charges in the wall. The negative charges in the balloon repel the negative charges in the wall, leaving an excess of positive charges near the surface of the wall where the balloon is placed.
The balloon is electrified by transferring elect rons from/to your hair. This electrified balloon then attracts electrons on the wall and this attraction force causes the balloon to stick to the wall until the charges decay form leakage to the wall or air.