Fwd: FW: static electricity

[Gabriel Moreno]

I had a pleasant lunch in the park today.  I was so nice to be in the sun.

After being there a little while I started to think about the wonders of static electricity.

Static electricity is an imbalance of electric charges within or on the surface of a material. The charge remains until it is able to move away by means of an electric current or electrical discharge. For modeling the effect of static discharge on sensitive electronic devices, a human being is represented as a capacitor of 100 picofarads, Charged to a voltage of 4,000 to 35,000 volts. When touching an object this energy is discharged in less than a microsecond   Are you having a little trouble understanding this?    If so , the next photo may help.                                                                                                        This is static electricity.

 

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