Touched something metal...it could even be shutting the car door, and you get that feeling like a small electric shock?.... is it just some kind of static eletricity or what? shed some light on this....
2007-03-15 08:46:29 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Okay, whats going on is more than likely static electricity.
The car is probably what is positively charged. Since the air is whipping around the car and could be causing it to be positively charged, then you will get shocked more often than not when you touch the outer shell.
The car is actually insulated from the ground by the rubber tires, which do not conduct electricity. Therefore, when you touch the highly conductive outer body of the car, you receive a shock, because you are grounded or negatively charged and the car is not grounded and positively charged.
Whats cool about this if you think about it...it is like your car body is acting like a capacitor (battery) being charged up by the passing wind and is just waiting to discharge the built up energy by completing the circuit...namely you or another foreign body such as water, animal, tree, etc.
You can actually simulate this in an experiment by sucking up baby powder into a bag less upright vacuum. Put your hand over the air filter and you will feel little sparks. This is static electricity and what is happening to you.
Good Luck!
2007-03-15 09:12:08 · answer #1 · answered by truthseeker 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What you are feeling is indeed static electricity. What happens is that when you move across the floor like for instance a carpeted room, you generate friction which causes your body to become positively charged. (loss of negative electrons) then when you touch a metal surface that has an excess of negative elctrons (almost anything that is electrically tied to the earth) then the charges balance themselves out and the little blue spark jumps from the metal to your body thus balancing the charges between you and the earth (ground/neutral) This often occurs more frequently in winter because the air is drier and their is less leakage of potential difference between you and the world around you. (water conducts electricity)
2007-03-15 15:56:07 · answer #2 · answered by Zippy[D] 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is a static shock. It is caused by two items touching that are of a different potential.
We walk around all day and we are all of a different potential (voltage) and when we touch. Oh Baby, we equalize our voltages. True
Nylon carpet and Shag carpet rubbing your feet builds up a charge faster for a bigger shock. That's why when we are shagging on nylon carpet. You car shocked Baby lol
Hey you told me it was my size or did you say it was my potential lol
Its also why they ground airplane shells to grounding ponts once they land or the people would be in for a shock once they disboard.
2007-03-15 16:05:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
And its just a static charge
Some people generate the charge more than others, I don't know why. Guess thats where the Magnetic Personality comes into it :-)
2007-03-15 15:50:36 · answer #4 · answered by Mictlan_KISS 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes i have
2007-03-15 15:49:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋