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=Weekly Report=

Report One
This week for the Van de Graff generator, we started on actual building. Muhammad took the materials home to start building it. When we met up on Thursday, we had the hole drilled, and the belt in place. The belt was two pen tubes with paper clips through the two holes going through them. A rubber band was then stretched out by the pen tubes. The belt wouldn't spin though. So, we tried several things. We tried to use a bigger rubber band since it could be that the band was too small. That didn’t work. So we tired filling the pen tubes with clay so that when we spun the clips the tubes would have to spin too. The tubes did spin, but the rubber band didn’t. Muhammad at this point said he would take it home to work on it.