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Rubbing your feet on the carpet.
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When we then touch a metal doorknob for example the extra electrons jump from our body to the metal making a spark.
Like the shock you receive when rubbing your feet on the carpet and touching something metal esd can occur when working in your computer and can cause damage to components.
Esd can occur without you feeling a shock and only occurs while working on the inside of the computer or handling an expansion card or other hardware.
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When you touch the door knob the extra electrons jump to the doorknob.
On a dry day you can sometimes rub your feet on the carpet and shock a metal object when you touch it.
The earth itself is a huge ball.
While you are trying to escape the shock treatment you discover a hollow metal cylinder in your basement large enough to climb inside.
This is what you do every time you drag your feet along a carpet so you can reach out and zap someone s ear.
The charges repelling atoms in the object touched.
When we shuffle our feet on the carpet we are rubbing electrons off the carpet and onto our body.
Now you have negative or unbalanced charge.
When you rub your feet on the carpet your feet pick up electrons from the carpet.
Rubbing two different materials together a process known as charging by friction aka charging by rubbing is the simplest way to give something a charge.
Your feet in socks and the carpet are doing charging by friction.
When you touch the door knob the extra electrons jump to the doorknob.
Electrons shoot up from the earth to the clouds and or from the clouds to the ground in order to balance out the charge the carpet works well because it insulates against grounding.
Now you have negative or unbalanced charge.
When you rub your feet on the carpet your feet pick up electrons from the carpet.
Static charges building up more and more.
Ohh yes the feet ahe many nerver endings thats why it feels so good when u rub it try this.
The movement of static charges to form current.
Your younger brother likes to rub his feet on the carpet and then touch you to give you a shock.
It s similar to lightning which happens in 2 parts cloud particles rub against each other creating charge imbalance.
Static charges losing their charges over time.