Static Electricity

Key Questions

• How does friction work in static electricity?

  Answer:

  By creating friction it pulls electrons away from the nucleus which creates static electricity.

  Explanation:

  this is because when you rub a balloon against your hair it sticks to the balloon because electrons are being removed from your hair so it becomes positively charged and the balloon becomes negatively charged because it gains electrons which are negatively charged. and different charges attract each other and the same charges repel.

  laura · 1 · Jun 18 2018

• What does electron affinity measure?
• How does static friction differ from kinetic friction?
• How does static electricity change the charges of an object?
• How does static electricity affect hair?
• How do static electricity and electric discharge differ?
• How does friction work in static electricity?
• Can static electricity and electric current occur simultaneously in the same object?
• How does static electricity form?
• What are the properties of static electricity?
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• If two pieces of ebonite are rubbed with fur, how will they react toward each other?
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• What is an #"ebonite rod"# ?
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• Why does a plastic ruler rubbed on hair loses electrons and gets a positive charge?
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• What happens when you bring a negatively charged object close to a neutral pith ball?
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• Physicists talk about the electron in a hydrogen atom being in an “energy well”. Explain why the difference in energy, ∆E, is negative. What does a negative ∆E represent?