The discharge of electricity between your finger and the doorknob is in principle the same as the discharge from a cloud to a tree during a storm. It occurs because of the general diffusive principle in nature (entropy) -- that is, things try to balance out to equal distribution. If you have a lot of negative charge in one place and a lack of negative charge in another (a positive charge), it will eventually "discharge" or equalize the charges. This is a "lightning bolt" or a "static bolt" depending on how much charge we're talking about.
In a cloud, lots of dust in the cloud is churning around and negative charges accumulate. The earth is the ultimate "equalizer" in nature, so enough negative charge will jump to the ground.
In the same way, when you rub your feet on the carpet, you push negative charges on or off of you; by building up this charge in your body, you cause a static jump the next time you touch something "grounded" (i.e., in contact with the earth).
Static Eletricity is created by rubbing a material on to plastic or another type of cloth.
It isn't the same. Static electricity is created by friction between two objects, and current electricity is a flow of continuos movement of electrons. Hope this helps!
Static electricity is static. It's just shortened.
Which is a characteristic of static electricity
everything electronic is static electricity
Nothing can be charged by static electricity.
static electricity is static electricity
It isn't the same. Static electricity is created by friction between two objects, and current electricity is a flow of continuos movement of electrons. Hope this helps!
It isn't the same. Static electricity is created by friction between two objects, and current electricity is a flow of continuos movement of electrons. Hope this helps!
Static charge and static electricity are 2 different terms for the same thing. Static electricity is voltage without current, usually created by friction. Voltage and EMF are 2 different terms for the same thing. When static electricity generates current, it is called a discharge and the static electricity ceases to exist. It has been discharged.
Static electricity is static. It's just shortened.
static electricity can be called high voltage static electricity can be called high voltage static electricity can bend water
static electricity
Which is a characteristic of static electricity
Static electricity is first created in the clouds then with enough charge the electricity grounds itself to the earth and what you see is the flow of static electricity shifting from the clouds to the ground
Static electricity constitutes of charges that are static i.e. they do not move.
Easy static electricity
You can move things with static electricity!