Answer to Question #185520 in Electric Circuits for yam

Question

1.what is lightning?

2.how are thunderclouds capable of producing the impressive electrical discharges that we see?

3.what happens in an electrical storm?

Answer 1

Answer

1.Lightning is process in which electrostatic discharge is produced during when two electrically charged regions in the atmosphere or ground temporarily causing the instantaneous release energy.

2.according to concepr of physics thunderclouds in different geographic locations tend to produce an excess negative charge at altitudes where the ambient air temperature is between about (23 to 5 °F). Positive charge accumulates at both higher and lower altitudes.

3.When the large amount energy of lightning is released, which five times hotter than the sun. It's so hot that when it tears across the sky, it super-heats the surrounding air extremely quickly. The air is forced to expand, causing a sonic wave we call thunder.

Therefore electrical storm happened.