The science of static electricity
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Anuradha Bhagwat |
TED-Ed
• April 2015
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. [Directed by Outis, narrated by Pen-Pen Chen, music by Cem Misirlioglu].