Does this contradict with Coulomb's law on electrostatics?
2007-02-01 23:30:38 · 5 answers · asked by student 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
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2007-02-01 23:38:47 · answer #1 · answered by poolshark21209 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The charged comb is creating static electricity, which has a magnetic property, as Farraday and James Clerk Maxwell predicted. What causes the attraction of the paper to the comb is that part of the electrostatic charge is transmitted to the paper as magnetic attraction.
2007-02-02 07:36:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The comb is 'charged' because it has excess charge on its entire surface. When the comb nears a neutral body (tiny piece of paper?) it repels the like charge in the object to its distant side and attracts the unlike charge on the near side.
2007-02-02 08:28:19 · answer #3 · answered by Kes 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is electrostatics my dear friend. . . . . . .the comb get +vely charged on being rubbed. . . . . .the paper gets attracted to it and thus they stick
2007-02-02 09:24:16 · answer #4 · answered by Stellar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
static electricity-no it doesn't
2007-02-02 07:42:26 · answer #5 · answered by oldmanarnie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋