What is the difference between “normal” electricity and static electricity?
In: Physics
Movement of electrons.
Static electricity is as the word static means not moving. It is a build up a charge like shuffling your feet on carpet. The electrons build up on you and when you touch a door knob, the charge is discharged. Your hair might stand up from the charge.
“Normal electricity” involves movement of electrons. Like when you put a battery in a device. It completes a circuit allowing the electrons to travel.
Flip a switch off, the flow is stopped.
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