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What happens when you walk across a carpet and receive a shock when you touch a metal object?
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Walking across a carpet can cause charge separation, which creates static electricity. You become electrically charged. When you get zapped touching a door knob, the static charge you had built up is discharging.
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What is a positive object?
If some electrons are stripped off of a material object, by friction, high-frequency light, or scuffing across the carpet for example, the object is left positively charged.
What is happening when you walk across a carpet and receive a shock when you touch a metal object?
Walking across a nylon carpet can cause charge separation between you and the carpet. You take on an electrostatic charge as a result. Touching a door knob allows that charge you accumulated to neutralize via a discharge event. The static discharge is the electric shock.
Accumulation of electic charges on an object?
Static electricity may accumulate on an object, such as is caused by shuffling across a synthetic fibre carpet. Or as accumulates on a car body in a dry environment.
Can carpet pass an electricity to another object?
Correction* Can carpet pass electricity onto another object? If you mean static electricity then yes, but depending on the charge of the other object.
Do you get shocked when an object is positivly charged?
no but You build up a negative charge as you drag your feet across the carpet. To balance you back out, you donate the extra electrons to the protons on the doorknob, which gives you a shock
What happens when electrons move from one object to another?
getting shocked after walking across a rug
What is the force that opposes frictional force?
Say you are moving an object against the carpet flooring, you are the force and you are causing the object to move as well as you are creating friction between the carpet and the object. The force would be called the netforce, which is all the forces that are acting on an object.
Why are you more likely to receive a shock after walking across a carpet when the air is dry when the air is humid?
Walking across the carpet causes charges to build up on your body. On a humid day the water molecules in the air tend to be attracted to the excess charge, even though they are neutral they are polar and will still move toward a source of charge. when they contact the charged object they pick up some of the excess charge and carry it away. This constant draining of charge makes it much harder to build up the proper amount of charge to get a nice noticeable shock.also because it its like that
What happens to the mass of an object what happens to the acceleration?
If the mass of an object increases, what happens to the acceleration?
How many centimeters across a handprint?
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What is a positively charged object?
It will repel other positively charged entities and attract all negatively charged entities.
Why you are likely to receive a shock after walking across a carpet when the air is dry than when the air is humid?
That shock is caused by static electricity, or the build-up of charge on an object. As you do something that will help build that charge (like scuff along a carpet), static electricity on your person increases. Water is a better conductor of electricity than dry air. In humid air, the static electricity will be slowly discharged as it contacts the water vapor. When there is no water vapor, the static electricity is not conducted away from your body as it builds up, and it accumulates. At some point, you come close to a good conductor of electricity - a metal object, for instance - and the built-up charge discharges.
