Static Electricity Charges

Millions of electrons go from your finger into the doorknob.

It becomes positively charged.

Increase the charge on one of the balloons.

Opposite charges.

The balloons will repel each other.

Static electricity is the buildup of electric charge on the surface of objects.

Opposite charges attract each other due to the electric force.

Electrons can be transferred from one object to another, creating static charges.

Coulomb's Law describes the force between two charged objects, stating that the force is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.

It becomes negatively charged.