Electrostatics

If lightning strikes a sand bed, it will form a fused tube in the sand, known as Fulgurite. This form is not confined to surface conditions, tubes are found up to 15m below the surface, and Fulgurite tubes may be up to a few cm in dia.

Yes, plastic wrap does cling because of static electricity. Saran wrap is a material that easily becomes negative in charge. This means that more electrons gather onto this material. Human skin is a material that easily becomes positive in charge. As thus, it loses electrons. Due to the fact that both of these are oppositely charged objects, they attract to each other. This is why plastic wrap clings to your skin when you touch it. Hope this answer will help!

The gravitational field inside a hollow sphere is zero. This is because the gravitational force from the spherical shell cancels out in all directions, resulting in no net gravitational force at the center or within the sphere.

"Induction suitable" typically refers to cookware that can be used on induction cooktops. Induction cooktops rely on magnetic fields to heat the cookware directly, so to work effectively, the cookware must be made from a magnetic material like stainless steel or cast iron. Cookware labeled as "induction suitable" is compatible with induction cooktops.

Overhead or underground with a feeder circuit from another building, in accordance with national, state and local electrical codes. If it is closer to a utility pole than the other buildings, and needs a lot of power, consider having the power company run a separate drop and meter to the barn for you.

Fabric softener reduces static electricity by coating fabrics with a thin layer of chemicals that lubricate and separate the fibers. This helps prevent the build-up of electrons, which is responsible for static electricity.

=Usually, atoms have the same number of electrons and protons. Then the atom has no charge, it is "neutral." But if you rub things together, electrons can move from one atom to another. Some atoms get extra electrons. They have a negative charge. Other atoms lose electrons. They have a positive charge. When charges are separated like this, it is called static electricity.=

The electricity is build up when electrons (negative charged particles of an atom) move in a conductor (eg. metal, wire, water) in a closed loop. This is also known as current. Just like water flow in a set of pipes. Static electricity is somehow the contrary. Static electricity is all about charges which are not free to move. This causes them to build up in one place and it often ends with a spark or a shock when they finally do move.

When an electric field separates positive and negative charges, it produces an electric potential difference between the charges. This results in the positive charges accumulating on one side and the negative charges accumulating on the other side, creating an overall charge separation.

Some of the electrons from the charged rod leap into the cork when they touch. When the charges on both items are equal they repel each other. This is because like charges repel while different charges attract.

Materials that commonly become charged with static electricity include plastics, rubber, glass, and certain fabrics like polyester and wool. These materials tend to acquire a static charge when rubbed against each other or when exposed to friction or low humidity conditions.

The rotation of a conductor which has mechanical energy is allowed to rotate in a magnetic field then due to change in flux there will be a induced emf according to faradays laws of electromagnetic induction. hence, mechanical energy gets converted into electrical energy wow i said alot i am genuis everybody sing with me i am not afraid to make a stand

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Positively charged particles of elements like Na and Ca are called cations. These cations form when the atoms lose one or more electrons, resulting in a net positive charge. This charge is balanced by an equal number of negatively charged electrons in the surrounding environment.

electrostatic experiments do not usually work during humid days beause the water molecules in the atmosphere deplete some of the delocalized charges. this is because water is a polar molecule which has two hydrogen atoms which are relatively positively charged and an oxygen atom with a negative charge.
the water molecules in the air will readily neautralise the charged surfaces in the experiment (for example this is why on a hot day you will often get an electric shock from your car door as your bum slides across the seat when you get out and create static electricity, but this never happens in wet or humid weather)

No.It does not occupy space and has no mass.

Static electricity is generated when two objects rub against each other, causing electrons to be transferred from one object to the other. This transfer of electrons creates a buildup of positive and negative charges in the objects, leading to static electricity.

The accident on May 6, 1937 that killed 36 people took place as the huge airship was preparing to land at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey and prompted several theories as to the cause.

Because Cotton is low on the list of electrons. If you rub 2 materials together, the lowest one on the list will take the electrons away from the other and it will result in a negative effect.

A Van de Graaff generator can create a build-up of positive charge on the stack of tin foil plates. Since like charges repel each other, the positively charged plates will repel each other and spread out due to the electric force between them.

Lightning is a large-scale discharge of static electricity that occurs in the atmosphere during a thunderstorm. Both lightning and static electricity involve the buildup and release of electrical charge, but lightning occurs between clouds or between a cloud and the ground on a much larger scale than typical static discharges.

Friction strips electrons so the rubbed amber would take on a negative charge. Actually, friction causes charges to shift. Charges are indeed stripped from something, but they are collected up by something else. Amber does, indeed, become negatively charged by rubbing it with, say, fur. The phenomon is called triboelectric effect. And a link is provided.

Yes, although it's easier to generate an electric charge on some cats than others. Also, both cats and dogs can be filled with static electricity especially if they are running around on carpeting. I've had mild shocks off my cat and 2 dogs, although it's not certain where the charge developed.

Lightning, of course, is simply a huge discharge of static electricity. In its nature, it's no different from the spark from your finger to a doorknob; the difference is only in scale. The current flow is from the sky to the earth (or earth to sky depending on how you view it technically, which is immaterial to this discussion), via the path of least resistance--which for a number of reasons, is not always the shortest, or straightest. The air is a relatively high resistance medium, so the lightning will "prefer" most any solid object, such as house, tree, or human body. The current creates an enormous amount of heat in whatever it passes through, and this is generally what causes the problem, e.g., fire, explosion, etc. Thunder, like the "crack" you hear when your fingertip discharges to the doorknob, is the sound of superheated air expanding explosively. A living body, of course, like electronic devices, is further disrupted by the presence of the voltage/current itself. A lightning rod, then, is simply an effort to offer the discharge an easier path than through an object which might be damaged or destroyed by it.