Static Electricity

17/05/21

Last lesson: In parallel circuits the current is _________

Last week: In series circuits the current is _______
Last topic: The equation for work done is, Work done =
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Electrons
• Remember electricity is the flow of electrons.
• When you get an electric shock electrons have to move, normally
from one object to another.
• Therefore for an electric shock to happen to objects have to have
rubbed together to allow electrons to move from one to the other.
• The two objects have to be insulators (don’t conduct electricity)
because we need the charge to build up (not to be conducted).

• LETS PROVE IT
Opposite charges.
• Because negative electrons have moved from one object to another,
one object has become negative and one has become positive.

• OPPOSITES ATTRACT!!!

• So….. One object and become attracted to another, like the balloon to
the wall.
video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc2-363MIQs
• What is going on here?

• Can you draw the

diagrams and describe
what is happening?

• Can you explain it?

What happens as more and more charge
increases?
A tiny potential difference between the charges
simply causes an attraction

A huge potential difference can cause death

because of the enormous voltages involved
attract increases friction
insulating electrons repel

• 1 What type of materials create static?

• 2 What causes the objects to become charged?
• 3 What part of the atom moves?
• 4 Like charges _______ ,opposite charges ________.
• 5 As charge increases what happens to the voltage?
attract increases friction
insulating electrons repel

• 1 What type of materials create static? insulating

• 2 What causes the objects to become charged?
friction
• 3 What part of the atom moves? electrons
• 4 Like charges repel ,opposite charges attract.
• 5 As charge increases what happens to the voltage?
Increases.