Answer to Question #310632 in Electricity and Magnetism for Nene

Question

1.How do insulator such as wearing rubber shoes reduce electrical damage to the human body?

2. Why does the production of sparks (current in air) in an explosive or flammable atmosphere should be prevented?

3. What might happen to a personif he/she approaches and reaches out for an object that is grounded if excess charge has accumulated on the person?

Answer 1

Answer

1.By wearing insulating footwear, you break a complete circuit and forbid a flow of electricity from passing through your body.

2.To prevent the build up of static electricity and prevent sparks from causing a fire, it is important to bond metal dispensing and receiving containers together before pouring. Bonding is done by making an electrical connection from one metal container to the other.

3.whether positively charged or negatively charged - will have an attractive interaction with a neutral object. Positively charged objects and neutral objects attract each other; and negatively charged objects and neutral objects attract each other.