Sometimes, when you walk across a carpet on a cold day, your feet pick up tiny bits of electricity. When you touch something like a doorknob, that electricity suddenly jumps from you to the doorknob, and you feel it as a little shock! It's like having invisible tiny sparks in your body waiting to pop out.
Examples
- Walking on carpet and getting shocked by the doorknob
- Brushing against wool in winter and feeling a jolt
- Grabbing a metal object after walking across a rug
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See also
- What are electric charges?
- Why Do We Get Static Shocks?
- What is stir?
- How Does Static electricity | Physics | Khan Academy Work?
- How Does The science of static electricity - Anuradha Bhagwat Work?