Static Electricity

Static Electricity

Static Electricity is the reason why you sometimes get a shock when you touch your car or another person.
Humidity is also a cure for static electricity.
The water molecules, which are conductors, can prevent the build-up of excess charge on an object.
The most dramatic example of static discharge is a lightning strike.
So in scientific words static electricity is the imbalance of positive and negative charges.
It is generated when any material gains or loses electrons and becomes positively charged (loses electrons) or negatively charged (gains electrons).

And we call it static because the charge doesn`t flow or move, but electricity we use every day in life depends on moving charges. 

So if we want to generate static electricity to understand it better. Simply if you rubbed any plastic piece with wool and make it close to some salt you will see the attraction between them.

And that’s because the negative charge (electrons) are pulled from the wool to the plastic piece, so the plastic piece has more electrons more than usual which will make it attract any positive energy(protons) in any other material.

To be more specific rubbing material doesn’t create electric charges we just transfer electrons from one material to another.

And there are many applications that you can see about static electricity every day.

So static electricity was the first phenomenon that we discovered about electricity.