Comments on: Study: Conventional Understanding of Static Electricity Is Wrong http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/06/29/study-conventional-understanding-of-static-electricity-is-wrong/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Gilbert Sambolin http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/06/29/study-conventional-understanding-of-static-electricity-is-wrong/#comment-28135 Gilbert Sambolin Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:56:53 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=29970#comment-28135 want to light up the room? just shut the lights, take of your sneakers, and quickly pull off your white socks that are made of polyester. It seems that every single person that wears this type of socks as you walk you are creating a high amount of static electricity. Is this good or bad? Well to begin with the human body is actually a walking electric producer through every single nerve in the body and that is direct current. No one has yet tested the consequences of pains and ackes of the muscles, however I think that some of the extreme head ackes on humans are caused by too much static electricity generated by just walking, running and by the sunlight just shinning on the static producing clothing we wear. want to light up the room? just shut the lights, take of your sneakers, and quickly pull off your white socks that are made of polyester. It seems that every single person that wears this type of
socks as you walk you are creating a high amount of static electricity. Is this good or bad? Well
to begin with the human body is actually a walking electric producer through every single nerve
in the body and that is direct current. No one has yet tested the consequences of pains and ackes
of the muscles, however I think that some of the extreme head ackes on humans are caused by too
much static electricity generated by just walking, running and by the sunlight just shinning on the
static producing clothing we wear.

]]> By: Iain http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/06/29/study-conventional-understanding-of-static-electricity-is-wrong/#comment-28134 Iain Fri, 01 Jul 2011 01:22:14 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=29970#comment-28134 If it's ironic, it won't be static,it's ferric. If it’s ironic, it won’t be static,it’s ferric.

]]> By: soupysales http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/06/29/study-conventional-understanding-of-static-electricity-is-wrong/#comment-28133 soupysales Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:41:19 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=29970#comment-28133 What if someone didn't understand irony? :) What if someone didn’t understand irony? :)

]]> By: Tom Hanna http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/06/29/study-conventional-understanding-of-static-electricity-is-wrong/#comment-28132 Tom Hanna Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:06:39 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=29970#comment-28132 What if we have more than one type of static electricity? Like amps and volts, change the amount or percentage and we will change the length and width of the arc, but it is still electricity! What if we have more than one type of static electricity? Like amps and volts, change the amount or percentage and we will change the length and width of the arc, but it is still electricity!

]]> By: :) http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/06/29/study-conventional-understanding-of-static-electricity-is-wrong/#comment-28131 :) Thu, 30 Jun 2011 03:06:07 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=29970#comment-28131 Wonder if it is too late to get a grade change on one of my test from last term. Wonder if it is too late to get a grade change on one of my test from last term.

]]> By: Tom K http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/06/29/study-conventional-understanding-of-static-electricity-is-wrong/#comment-28130 Tom K Thu, 30 Jun 2011 02:42:18 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=29970#comment-28130 Huh?? Friction?? That's certainly not conventional wisdom. I've taught physics at the high school level for 11 years, and have never taught that friction causes "static" electricity. Contact and separation. Friction merely increases the total amount of contact and separation that occur. If friction were required, physicists would be still scratching their heads, wondering how van de graaff generators work. As far as the exchange of material other than electrons, how many tens or hundreds of thousands of high school physics students have experimented with "static" electricity by putting two pieces of scotch tape together, then rapidly separating them? That's one of the most basic activities to determine that there are two types of charge. Certainly, no one really thought that the only thing exchanged was electrons, did they?? Huh?? Friction?? That’s certainly not conventional wisdom. I’ve taught physics at the high school level for 11 years, and have never taught that friction causes “static” electricity. Contact and separation. Friction merely increases the total amount of contact and separation that occur. If friction were required, physicists would be still scratching their heads, wondering how van de graaff generators work. As far as the exchange of material other than electrons, how many tens or hundreds of thousands of high school physics students have experimented with “static” electricity by putting two pieces of scotch tape together, then rapidly separating them? That’s one of the most basic activities to determine that there are two types of charge. Certainly, no one really thought that the only thing exchanged was electrons, did they??

]]> By: Jay Fox http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/06/29/study-conventional-understanding-of-static-electricity-is-wrong/#comment-28129 Jay Fox Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:05:18 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=29970#comment-28129 Just where and how does relative humidity play in all of this? "Conventional Understanding" holds that static electricity is reduced when humidity is relatively high. How and why does that work? Just where and how does relative humidity play in all of this?

“Conventional Understanding” holds that static electricity is reduced when humidity is relatively high. How and why does that work?

]]> By: Georg http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/06/29/study-conventional-understanding-of-static-electricity-is-wrong/#comment-28128 Georg Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:48:55 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=29970#comment-28128 No, this is shocking only if You take such things from High school textbooks as "Conventional Understanding". There are more nonsense things in those textbooks. Firsthand the misleading word "static" electricity. Georg No,
this is shocking only if You take such things from High school textbooks
as “Conventional Understanding”.
There are more nonsense things in those textbooks. Firsthand the
misleading word “static” electricity.
Georg

]]> By: Chris http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/06/29/study-conventional-understanding-of-static-electricity-is-wrong/#comment-28127 Chris Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:26:49 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=29970#comment-28127 Shocking! Shocking!

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