In Basic language, can you explain what static electricity is and how it occurs?
Static Electricity is an electrical charge that is fixed in position in some material, as opposed to current electricity, which consists of charges in motion. There are two kinds of electrical charge, positive and negative, and they exert forces on each other. Positive charges push each other apart; negative charges also push each other apart; a positive charge and a negative charge pull each other together. This is summed up in the rule: like charges repel, unlike charges attract. These forces also affect the objects carrying the charges. A common example of these “electrostatic” effects is the collection of dust on plastic objects, such as telephones and on the screens of television sets. In everyday life electrical charges consist of an excess or a shortage of particles called electrons. Electrons are parts of atoms and have a negative electrical charge. In some materials, called conductors, some of the electrons are able to separate from their atoms and move relatively freely throu
Basic is an old computer programming language, and it can’t make a computer, let along a person, understand anything. In plain language, electricity is like a bunch of stag dancers (electrons) looking for a circle dance (atom) with a vacancy. An usher is herding free dancers out one door (cathode), and they are finding their way around the building to a door where an usher is letting people in (anode). The dancers outside the building are pushing their way along (doing work) because they really want to get back in an hook up with the girls in the center of a circle dance. EDIT: Oops! I completely overlooked the word, “static”. Your dancehall would take on a negative static charge if you closed the exits and emptied several busloads of stags at the entrance. If you lock the entrance and bounce all the rowdy stags into jail-bound paddy wagons, you get a positive static charge.
