What can electricity do to you?

Answer 1

It could do several things, mostly bad:

• kill you
• burn you
• cause contractions of your muscles that could throw you across the room or even break bones
• cause contractions of your muscles (DC only) that make it impossible for you to let go of the conductors
• etc.

Answer 2

If your holding the object, your muscles contract, and you cannot let go (That what you see in Cartoons, that's why they never let go). So while you hold it, the current goes around your body and electrocutes you. It goes through the nerves in your body and can reach your heart. Although this is fatal, it can also go up to your brain and you could get brain damage.

Answer 3

Electricity can pass through your body causing you to get shocked. The severity of the shock depends on how many amps passed through and where the electricity passed through your body. Also the length of time you were being shocked. If there is enough amps you can be burned and/or killed. If you don't know what your doing around electricity then it would be best not mess around with it.

Answer 4

The heart uses it's own electrical pulses in order to beat correctly. Passing a current through the body can disrupt the heart pulses.

This can either stop the heart, or make it beat out of sync in a random fashion. This is known is 'fibrillation'. Basically the heart will stop pumping blood and you will die within minutes.

Answer 5

It is used in cells of all types in various processes, but especially in nerve cells for signal transmission down the length of the cell and in muscle cells to initiate the chemical reactions that cause contraction. This is why externally applied electricity produces such undesirable effects: nerves misfire and muscles inappropriately contract.