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yanalaym [24]
3 years ago
15

How does a person become "charged" as he or she shuffles across a carpet with bare feet on a dry winter day?

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1 answer:
Assoli18 [71]3 years ago
3 0

This process occurs because there is a contact between the carpet and the person's feet. Basically that contact generates the transfer of some electrons to the carpet on dry winter days.

In this way a person is charged when dragging bare feet on the carpet on a dry winter day.

Therefore, the net positive charge occurs on the surface of the carpet.

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