STATIC ELECTRICITY
Have you ever felt tingling effect more often during colder seasons, no wires and no power supply and still you get electric shocks? This is nothing but STATIC ELECTRICITY . It is a familiarly encountered phenomenon in which charged particles are transferred from one body to another. For example, if two objects are rubbed together, especially if the objects are insulators and the surrounding air is dry, the objects acquire equal and opposite charges. The word static means “at rest - not moving”. Static electricity, as opposed to current electricity, is stationary. Static electricity is the buildup of a temporary electric charge in an object. It refers to an imbalance between the negative and the positive charges on a body. The imbalance in the charge is introduced by physical means and separation between two materials, Rapid heat change etc. Static electricity is the electric field which is developed due to the stationar...