The science of static electricity - Anuradha Bhagwat
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We’ve all had the experience: you’re walking across a soft carpet, you reach for the doorknob and … ZAP. But what causes this trademark jolt of static electricity? Anuradha Bhagwat sheds light on the phenomenon by examining the nature of matter.
Explain why for static electricity to occur between two surfaces that are rubbed against each other, one of the materials has to be an insulator.
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- Educator Anuradha Bhagwat
- Director Outis
- Sound Designer Cem Misirlioglu
- Script Editor Alex Gendler
- Narrator Pen-Pen Chen
