ELECTROSTATICS

- Is the study of electric charge at rest (or more or less at rest in

contrast with current electricity).
ELECTROSTATIC FORCE
- Are attractive or repulsive forces between particles that are caused
by their electric charges.
ATMOSPHERE
- Earth’s Electric Blanket; protects Earth like a big blanket of
insulation.
ELECTRIC FIELDS
- Lightning - Thunderstorm - Aurora Borealis
WHAT CAUSES LIGHTNING?
- When the positive (+) charges in the bottom of the clouds attracted
to the negative (-) charges of the ground.
- Air is an insulator, a resistor, and there is no attraction between +
and – charges.
+ and – charge
separates
within the cloud
++++
++++
Upward and Stepped Leader
(-) charges moves
meet it makes a path for a much
from the clouds
larger and brighter electric current
towards the ground ----------- to shoot up into the clouds
called Stepped
Leader. ------
+++++
++++ Upward Leader
forms when (+)
charge move up
++++ from the ground.