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Nesreen walks across a carpet in her socks and then reaches for the doorknob Her hand contains positive charges What will happen to the positive charges in the doorknob just before she touches it?
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∙ 10y ago
she will blow her finger off with static electricity.
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If your hand were negatively charged and you touched a neutral doorknob which direction would negative charges move?
Hand to door knob
What effect will one positive charge have on another positive charge?
This is one of the fundamental laws of charges. Like charges repel, and opposite charges, your positive and negative ones, attract each other.
What do you call matter that has a balance of positive and negative charges?
Neutral charges
3 positive charges and 4 negative charges what is the overall charge of an atom?
If an atom has 3 positive charges (protons) and 4 negative charges (electrons), the 3 positive charges would "cancel out" 3 negative charges, with one negative charge left over. So the atom would have a charge of -1.
Their respective charges are?
Positive, negative, neutral
What contains electrical charges in atom?
Electrons contain negative charges, and protons contain positive charges.
Are the charges in the finger attracted or repelled by the charges in the doorknob?
I think they attract because if the charges repelled, they would push back the charges to create a magnetic field.
What kind of charged particles does an atom contain?
The nucleus of an atom contains the neutral neutrons and the positive protons. Negatively charged electrons orbit the nucleus.
What objects have an electric charge?
Every object contains charge but it s usually hidden in daily life because object contains equal number of positive and negative charges. However, imbalance in any of the charges(positive or negative) in objects is responsible for their interaction with other charged objects.
Do positive objects contain only positive charges?
No. A positive ion merely has more positive charges (protons) than negative charges (electrons).
Will positive and positive repel or attract?
'Like' charges (both positive or both negative) repel.Unlike charges (one of each) attract.
What type of particles gather near the bottom of clouds before energy is released as lightning?
the answer is both positive and negitive charges and that is because to make lighting it has to be positive and negitive charges because if there is both 2 negitive charges will both repel and the same thing will happen to positive charges but when positive and negitive charges and positive charges will attract
If your hand were negatively charged and you touched a neutral doorknob which direction would negative charges move?
Hand to door knob
Why does positive and positive charges repels in a cell?
Because like charges repel each other.
Atoms have higher number of positive charges than negative charges?
the positive number of a atom
What causes a substance to have a positive charge?
the object has to have more positive charges than negative charges.
What is a continuous flow of positive charges called?
The continuous flow of positive charges is called current
