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What is it called when you rub your sock covered feet on a rug across the room and then touch a doorknob?
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Suppose you acquire a positive charge from walking across a carpet You then touch a doorknob and receive a shock This leaves you?
electrically neutral :)
How can you wire a door handle so that it will shock people when they touch it?
You hold the doorknob with one hand and a live wire with the other, you moron.
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A fomite is any object that can facilitate horizontal bacteria transmission of bacteria or virus (person to person). Almost every object on earth could theoretically act as a fomite. A good example would be a doorknob: Someone with an infection (that has the infection-causing bacteria on their hands) touches a doorknob, then you touch that doorknob and then touch your nose or mouth, then you get the infection. The doorknob acted as a fomite, and you just got a fomite borne infection. Another example would be food: Someone with an infection sneezes on your food (or near your food), then you eat that food, then you get the infection. The food acted as a fomite, and you just got a fomite borne infection.
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Suppose you acquire a positive charge from walking across a carpet You then touch a doorknob and receive a shock This leaves you?
electrically neutral :)
Suppose you acquire a positive charge from walking across a carpet. You then touch a doorknob and receive a shock. This leaves you .?
electrically neutral :)
Why do you get an electric shock if you touch a doorknob after walking across a carpet?
You build up static electricity by walking across the carpet. When you touch metal doorknob, it releases the stored energy.positive and negative charges. when you drag your feet against carpet you are negatively charged and so the door knob is positively charged so there fore causing an electric shock
Why do you get an electic shock if you touch a doorknob after walking across a carpet?
You get an electric shock if you touch a doorknob after walking on carpet because of built up of extra electrons transferred from the carpet to your feet and then body. The electrons stay built up on you until you touch something that they can discharge on, in this case a doorknob.
Why do you get an electric shock after you touch a doorknob walking across a carpet?
The friction of your feet on a carpet generates static electricity. When you then touch the metal doorware its earths through you causing the charge to pass to the door.
When you touch a doorknob and the door shocks you what type of energy is that?
electrical energy
What causes a shcok after walking acroiss carpet and touching a metal doorknob?
you build up a charge from dragging your feet and then when you touch the doorknob you discharge the electricity.
Why is a static discharge if you touch a metal doorknob after walking on a wool carpet?
energy form rubbing your feet on the carpet is acumulated "in" you, and the doorknob acts a ground. Once you touch the doorknob, the energy exits. It makes more sense if you think that you are the positive end of a circuit, and the energy goes through the circuit, and the spak can be thought of as an LED.
When you walk across a carpeted floor and then touch a metal doorknob the shock you feel occurs because of A static discharge B electric field C static charge D chemical reaction?
The answer is A, static discharge.
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The dirtiest thing in a bathroom is a doorknob because, most people don't use soap when they wash their hands so when they touch the doorknob they transfer all the germs onto it.
Why you may produce a static discharge if you touch a metal doorknob after walking on a wool carpet?
We hace electric descharge
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