during the rainy seasonthe electricity falls on the ground as it is not affected by the gravity
2006-10-09 23:07:23 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Home Schooling
are you talking about lightning????????
2006-10-09 23:15:43 · answer #1 · answered by break 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, it's not affected by gravity. But, when it gets covered by the rain, it gets pulled down by the weight of the water.
Soggy electricity is the worst. Very dangerous. Stay away.
2006-10-10 13:18:26 · answer #2 · answered by Iridium190 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
be clear with ur question.
if u r talking about presence of electricity under a bare current carrying conductor during rainy season, where there's possibility fo rain water to touch the current carrying conductor and then the ground and thus the water path formed between the conductor and the ground is a continuous one. Then it is simply a case of electricity carried by water (here water acted as conductor).
if u r question is about electric discharge (or lightning) during rainy season, where statical electricity directly discharges to ground from the cloud,
it is not due to gravitational pull.
(remember ground is always at 0 potential with respect to any charged body)
If the rain cloud acquire -ve or +ve charge, and if it is near to ground and if under the given condition the potential difference between cloud and the ground be enough to break insulation strength of the air between cloud and the ground, then electric discharge happens (or electricity falls to ground).
The flow of statical electricity between cloud and the ground, is basically flow of electrons and they are not affected by gravitational pull. If cloud is +vely charged, electrons will flow from ground to cloud.
2006-10-10 07:55:03 · answer #3 · answered by ramlal 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If an insulator breaks, or a power line becomes disconnected from the insulators that hold it up, the line can fall to the ground and energize the area around it with a lot of electricity.
For more info .log on to:
http://www.ngridenergyworld.com/esw/travels/insulators.html
2006-10-10 07:37:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sometimes it doesn't. Haven't you seen lightening shoot from cloud to cloud? That is where the positive charge is. The clouds try to remain neutral.
Due to the storm build up (friction within the atmoshere), positive and negative ions are separated, usually the positive charges are in the ground (due to all the metals in the ground)(but sometimes they're in another cloud).
The negative charge is in the clouds. The transfer is the passing of some positive charges to the clouds, and negative charges to the ground.
The lightening is the "evening" out of the charges, so that the overall charge on the ground and the atmoshere is zero.
2006-10-10 06:19:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
http://www.ngridenergyworld.com/esw/travels/insulators.html
2006-10-12 01:21:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋