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Can touching a electrocuted person pass the current through you?
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What happens to a person who hangs on the power line?
If a person is simply hanging from the power line, not touching anything else, nothing much will happen. This is also the reason why birds can sit on power lines, and squirrels can run along them without injury. However, if the person hanging form the power line completes a circuit by touching anyhting through which current can flow, that person will be electrocuted and may not survive the experience. Items that could be touched and cause electrocution include vehicles, ladders, power poles, trees and shrubs, kite strings, other power lines operating at different voltage, among other things.
Why should yu not keep a radio near a person bathing?
the radio could fall in and the person could be electrocuted
Why don't birds get electrocuted sitting on a wire?
Very interesting...A current will flow (or somebody will get electrocuted!) if there is a sufficiently high potential difference across him.When birds sit on a wire (of high potential), the whole body becomes at a high potential, and there is no potential difference across it. Hence, no current passes through it and the bird is not electrocuted.However, if a person, while standing on the ground, touches the same wire, he will be electrocuted.add You've discovered one of the reasons why overhead electric wires are separated from each other. We do have blackouts caused by a bird or an opossum (Aus) bridging between the wires. In NZ in suburbia, almost all power poles have a wide metal band on them to stop the possums from climbing them.
What can a person hold without touching or using their hands?
A person can hold his/her Breath without using his/her hands. If a person has been born without arms, they can use their feet in the same way as hands with no problems.
The damaging effects of electric shock result from the current that flows in the body.Why then do signs read Danger-High Voltage rather than Danger-High Current?
It is true that the magnitude of current flow through the body determines the effects that occur. The path taken through the body is also responsible for the final outcome. For example the extremities will survive with higher current flow than the heart. There are a lot of factors that effect the magnitude of current flow, body resistance can be one variable. This changes from person to person, and from day to day , as well as conditional. For example wet hands will reduce the resistance to current flow and increase the magnitude of current through the body, dry, dirty hands/skin will have the opposite effect. With all other factors being equal (body resistance, path of current etc) The one variable that will 'push' more current through the body is the voltage level. Low voltage (less than 50V) typically has little effect. Where high voltage such as 4160V dramatically decreases your odds of survival.
What is the correct use of electrocuted?
Usually refers to a person or animal that has had or risks having electricity passed through it (usually unintentionally). "He just got electrocuted" "If you keep poking that you're going to get electrocuted" "The poor thing stepped on the third rail and was electrocuted"
How do you spell electrocute?
The verb for to execute or kill by electric shock is indeed to electrocute.(Example : Touching a hanging power line can electrocutea person.)
What are the effect if you are electrocuted to 440 system voltage?
Electrocuted is the term given to death by electric shock. You can only be Electrocuted once. There are many factors that affect the result of contact with any voltage system. These include duration, path of current through the body etc. You could have a 440v shock that may only travel through one hand for example. The likely result is some electrical burns just to that hand. If however, the current path , goes from your hand, through your chest to your feet (through your heart) the risk of death is high. The amount of current required to kill a person is very small, around 50 milliamps (50 thousandths of an amp). As Current (Amps) is proportional to voltage, the higher the voltage the higher the current.
How many people killed by down power lines a year?
600 people a year are killed by power lines. Some are direct contact meaning by touching the power line. Some are indirect contact meaning by touching an object that was touching the power line. The electricity flow right through the object and through the person. This person is instantly electrocuted and killed. And the victim's burns are black. If you fly a kite or cut trees make sure there are no power lines close.
What is A ground-fault circuit interrupter?
== == If the current in an ac power circuit is not balanced between hot and neutral, possibly meaning some of the current is going through a human being to ground, a GFCI breaker or receptacle will break the circuit to keep the person from being electrocuted.
What happens to a person who hangs on the power line?
If a person is simply hanging from the power line, not touching anything else, nothing much will happen. This is also the reason why birds can sit on power lines, and squirrels can run along them without injury. However, if the person hanging form the power line completes a circuit by touching anyhting through which current can flow, that person will be electrocuted and may not survive the experience. Items that could be touched and cause electrocution include vehicles, ladders, power poles, trees and shrubs, kite strings, other power lines operating at different voltage, among other things.
What will happen to someone who is holding a live wire in the air and not touching the ground?
Nothing will happen , as the current always flows from higher potential to lower potential and if the person is touching only live wire then, there is no other path for the current to flow , but if the person touches the ground , the ground is at "0" potential, so, the current tries to flow from live wire to the ground via person , so the person gets shock in that case but not when a person is only touching the live wire and not the ground.
If water is a good conductor of electricity then if live electric wire comes in contact with sea or ocean then will all fishes or any person touching the water get electrocuted?
True, water is a conductor of electricity, and salt water is a bit better, but it also has something called resistance, that is it does resist current flow , so it would depend largely on how much current , how far apart the wires are , and how far away the electrocutee is.
How do you draw a ninja?
draw a person whilst being electrocuted
Is it safe to touch a person who has been electrocuted?
Yes, the electricity goes through them and out their feet. only during static charge can another person or object be shocked. Electrocution only happens when electricity is able to pass through something to the ground.
Why the crows are not getting electric shock while they stand on electric line?
The birds are only touching one wire and not touching any thing that provides a return path for the current back to the generator. There is a procedure for people to work on energized high voltage lines from a helicopter without getting shocked because they are only touching one wire, so there is no return path available through the person.
Why should yu not keep a radio near a person bathing?
the radio could fall in and the person could be electrocuted
