what is static electricity?

Answer 1

Static electricity is a class of phenomena involving objects with a net charge; typically referring to charged objects with voltages of sufficient magnitude to produce visible attraction, repulsion, and electrical sparks.

Static electricity can be a serious nuisance in the processing of analog recording media, because it can attract dust to sensitive materials. In the case of photography, dust accumulating on lenses and photographic plates degrades the resulting picture. Dust also permanently damages vinyl records because it can be embedded into the grooves as the stylus passes over. In both cases, several approaches exist to combat such dust deposition. Some brushes, particularly those with carbon fiber bristles, are advertised as possessing anti-static properties. Also available are handheld static guns which shoot streams of ions to discharge static on records and lenses.

Note that the presence of electric current does not detract from the electrostatic forces nor from the sparking, from the corona discharge, or other phenomena. Both phenomena can exist simultaneously in the same system.

Static electricity is an important element in the biological process of pollination by bees, since the charge on a bee's body helps to attract and hold pollen.

Answer 2

Electrostatics is the branch of physics that deals with the forces exerted by a static (i.e. unchanging) electric field upon charged objects.

In electrostatics, charge need not be 'static' in the sense of unchanging. Instead 'static' implies that the dynamic coupling between electric and magnetic fields can be ignored. In electrostatics we study e-fields, voltage, and charge, but ignore any magnetic fields generated by the motion of these charges or that may be present for other reasons. Because of the electric field's relationship to and interaction with magnetism, electrostatics is a subfield of electromagnetism.

Answer 3

In electrostatics, charge need not be 'static' in the sense of unchanging. Instead 'static' implies that the dynamic coupling between electric and magnetic fields can be ignored. In electrostatics we study e-fields, voltage, and charge, but ignore any magnetic fields generated by the motion of these charges or that may be present for other reasons. Because of the electric field's relationship to and interaction with magnetism, electrostatics is a subfield of electromagnetism.

Answer 4

static electricity is an electrical charge that accumulates on an object when it is rubbed against another object — for example, the spark that jumps from someone's hand to a doorknob after the person has walked across a rug.

Answer 5

electricity produced by charges at rest

Answer 6

E = Q/t
E= statistic
Q= coulomb
t=time

Answer 7

You got so many answers so I don't think you need mine.

Answer 8

http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/static.html