Static Electricity

Static Electricity

1. How it occurs?

   • Static electricity occurs when two objects, one with a positive charge and the other one with a negative charge touch each other, have contact, or friction and the electrons of the second object moves or flows to the first object ( the one positively charged) and makes a spark - static discharge. Immediately this object gets neutralized (the object now has a neutra charge). This needs to include a conductor because it needs to transport the electrons, something that the insulators can't

2. What is this?

   • Static electricity is an energy that when an object has an imbalance of charge and the electrons "travel" to another object making this NOT leaving this object positively charged.

3. What causes it?

   • There are two main causes or reasons why this happens:
     • The first one is a force called friction. It allows the transference of the electrons ( that have a negative charge ) to the other body, this can happen if the object is a conductor because if it is not and it is an insulator the "transference" cannot happen, it would not move to other objects.
     • The second one is the charge imbalance that is when for example one object is left with more protons than electrons and becomes positively charged, an the other one would have a negatively charge, they would have different charges.

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