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The static energy that your body generates makes your body have a net positive charge. When you touch a negatively charged item, the electricity is transferred and you get a shock.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 14y agoYou can't. You are full of positive charges. The rug, however, is made up of negative
charges, and that causes a shock.
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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.
What makes the flash of a lightning strike larger than that of a carpet shock?
A lightning shock is bigger than a carpet shock because a lightning shock has bigger and more severe energy.
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
Why frictional electricity is called triboelectricity?
It is because the Greek root word "tribo or tribos" means to rub or rubbing. Friction transfer of electrons occurring during contact of two opposite materials on the triboelectric series of materials causes electrical properties to change overall polatity. Example... Rub a rubber balloon on your hair and touch it to the wall and it sticks until the electrons dissipate. Also walk across nylon carpet with tennis shoes and touch a doorknob and ZAP you get a shock. Once the shock was received the electron imbalance is gone and no more shock until you walk across the carpet or "rub" your feet on the carpet.
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.
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
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 :)
Shock that a person gets when touching a metal doorknob after walking across a carpet is caused by?
static electricity (kinitic)
Why can you get a shock by touched a doorknob after walking on a wool carpet?
You build up static electricity by walking across the carpet. When you touch metal, it releases the stored energy. positive and negative charges. when you drag your feet against carpet you are negatively charged and so the metal is positively charged so there fore causing an electric shock
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 walking across a carpet is an example of?
Friction:)
Why do you get an electric shock after rubbing your feet across a carpet?
Yes
What causes you to be shock when you walk across a carpet?
Static electricity.
What happens when you walk across a carpet and receive a shock when you touch a metal object?
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.
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.
How do i give an electric shock by dragging your feet across the carpet?
Easy! A. put on socks B. drag your feet across the carpet a few times C. rub your hands together D. then go to someone and touch them on the skin, you should shock them!
