In everyday life the small electric charge is occurring when you walk, sit or during sleeping. Rubbing two surface of cloths or any objects make this tiny electric charge, in this article you see a simple explanations and basic ideas about electrostatic charge.
Introduction to Electrostatic Charge
In physics, the electrostatic charge is one of the most fundamental concepts. It defines as the accumulation of electric charge on an object’s surface; this happens due to the imbalance of positive and negative charges.
Electrostatic charges are invisible. These invisible charges accumulate in our daily life. Did you feel a small shock when walking through a carpet? This is due to the electrostatic Charge accumulation on the carpet.
And also it is present in advanced industrial processes like photography, air purification, and semiconductor manufacturing. The electrostatic charges help to know about how matter interacts at the atomic level and why certain materials attract or repel each other .
What are electrostatic charges?
The stationary charges that accumulates on the object ‘s surface is defines as electrostatic charge. Commonly, atoms have an equal number of positively charged protons and negatively charged electrons; then it becomes electrically neutral.
These equally distributed electrons are changes it’s balance due to the movement of one object moves relative to another; this will create electrostatic charge.
Opposite charges attract, and like charges repel. In this situations the object that gain electrons which will be negatively charged. In the same way, the object which loss electrons becomes positively charged. The electrostatic charge determines how these two types of charges interact with each other.
