Comments on: Static electricity http://toffe.wordpress.com/2006/12/18/static-electricity/ Can't live without it Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:47:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Eva http://toffe.wordpress.com/2006/12/18/static-electricity/#comment-40 Eva Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:54:31 +0000 http://toffe.wordpress.com/2006/12/18/static-electricity/#comment-40 Åff kåårs. Åff kåårs.

]]> By: Toffe http://toffe.wordpress.com/2006/12/18/static-electricity/#comment-39 Toffe Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:41:03 +0000 http://toffe.wordpress.com/2006/12/18/static-electricity/#comment-39 Hej Eva. Välkommen. Visst får du länka hit. :) om det är ok så sätter jag en länk till din blog härifrån också. Hej Eva. Välkommen. Visst får du länka hit. :)
om det är ok så sätter jag en länk till din blog härifrån också.

]]> By: Eva H (som i Hauki) http://toffe.wordpress.com/2006/12/18/static-electricity/#comment-37 Eva H (som i Hauki) Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:18:11 +0000 http://toffe.wordpress.com/2006/12/18/static-electricity/#comment-37 Hällou! Intressant fenomen du beskrev! Vardagen är fylld med spänning, eller hur? Jag tänkte bara fråga om jag kan sätta dig på min blogg som en bloggare? Gud jul önskar jag dig! Hällou!

Intressant fenomen du beskrev! Vardagen är fylld med
spänning, eller hur? Jag tänkte bara fråga om jag kan sätta dig på min blogg som en bloggare? Gud jul önskar jag dig!

]]> By: Toffe http://toffe.wordpress.com/2006/12/18/static-electricity/#comment-36 Toffe Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:12:50 +0000 http://toffe.wordpress.com/2006/12/18/static-electricity/#comment-36 And the phenomena occourred when i removed the blanket from the bed. It was twirled and tumbeled, and when i removed it it got stretched out and during the stretching the glowing started. And the phenomena occourred when i removed the blanket from the bed. It was twirled and tumbeled, and when i removed it it got stretched out and during the stretching the glowing started.

]]> By: Toffe http://toffe.wordpress.com/2006/12/18/static-electricity/#comment-35 Toffe Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:12:51 +0000 http://toffe.wordpress.com/2006/12/18/static-electricity/#comment-35 This is probably a "hot" topic, because i was asked to moderate this comment :) The phenomena with the blanket was not "jumping sparks" but more like the surface was glowing. Perhaps the sparks just juped between the fur. But then the the glow was yellow, and in my experience static electricity is bluish. Hmm. But... sparks in the air are blue, because tha atoms in the air are exited. perhats it was actually the fur atoms that started to glow. hence the yellowness. I have to take some photos. It was a syntetic furish feltlike blanket. This is probably a “hot” topic, because i was asked to moderate this comment :)
The phenomena with the blanket was not “jumping sparks” but more like the surface was glowing. Perhaps the sparks just juped between the fur. But then the the glow was yellow, and in my experience static electricity is bluish.
Hmm. But… sparks in the air are blue, because tha atoms in the air are exited. perhats it was actually the fur atoms that started to glow. hence the yellowness. I have to take some photos. It was a syntetic furish feltlike blanket.

]]> By: Mikael http://toffe.wordpress.com/2006/12/18/static-electricity/#comment-34 Mikael Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:58:00 +0000 http://toffe.wordpress.com/2006/12/18/static-electricity/#comment-34 Interesting! I've seen some tiny sparks a few times, but never anything like that. Don't get that blanket near any RAM-modules! Maybe you could rub it up deliberately and take a photograph. I found some appropriate illustrations: http://www.resonanceresearch.com/bridge-fire-electrostatic-hands-on-display.htm http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/exhibits/van-de-graaff/index1.html#6 I had an exciting experience with static electricity myself last summer. My cousins have got a really big trampoline(!) in their back yard in Jakobstad. I was watering their flowers while they went to France, and so Anna and I had an chance to play with the trampoline. (I wonder what the neighbours thought.. Two 20-something-year-old strangers jumping around on their neighbours yard and laughing hysterically.) But I had no idea it had such an impressing side effect of building up static electricity! It's probably because there is a plastic sleeve surrounding the edges, which is constantly rubbing against the flexing mat while you jump. It's all non-conducting materials. And that leaves you charged too. But the charge did obviously NOT distribute evenly among the jumpers. Sparks really flew when we touched! :) (There was an attracting force.) Interesting! I’ve seen some tiny sparks a few times, but never anything like that. Don’t get that blanket near any RAM-modules! Maybe you could rub it up deliberately and take a photograph.

I found some appropriate illustrations:
http://www.resonanceresearch.com/bridge-fire-electrostatic-hands-on-display.htm
http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/exhibits/van-de-graaff/index1.html#6

I had an exciting experience with static electricity myself last summer. My cousins have got a really big trampoline(!) in their back yard in Jakobstad. I was watering their flowers while they went to France, and so Anna and I had an chance to play with the trampoline. (I wonder what the neighbours thought.. Two 20-something-year-old strangers jumping around on their neighbours yard and laughing hysterically.) But I had no idea it had such an impressing side effect of building up static electricity! It’s probably because there is a plastic sleeve surrounding the edges, which is constantly rubbing against the flexing mat while you jump. It’s all non-conducting materials. And that leaves you charged too. But the charge did obviously NOT distribute evenly among the jumpers. Sparks really flew when we touched! :) (There was an attracting force.)

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