How to Stop Getting Zapped By Static
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2017
- You just wanted to shuffle across the room in your pajamas and bunny slippers, but when you go to reach for the door knob... you get shocked! What gives!? What causes this strange effect?
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When I lived in Denver, which is pretty dry, I was CONSTANTLY getting shocked by anything metal.
I'd developed a fear of touching anything metal for years afterward.
I get shocked touching people...
@@iishyxvietxboyii1 today me for the first time dude :( ....before always by metal.
This Is Me Rn Lol How Can I Get Rid Of It
Try rock instead. Metal's not everyone's cup of tea ;)
@@iishyxvietxboyii1 maybe that means that you are meant to be. 🤭🤭
I am getting shock 5-8 times a day. I feel like I am becoming mutant.
SHERE ALI same lol
Same here
Same here....
Same
But today so far I have been shocked like 21 times
Who else came to watch this because they get zapped all the time?? :,(
Me
I hate it. So does my cat.
My poor cat shocks me all the time.
Me, like I just got zapped by touching by dad and my sis few days back and last year around winter got zapped touching a tissue paper.
By my siblings
A good trick to avoid painful shocks if you think you might have static is to first touch the metal with your knuckle. It's way less sensitive than your fingertips, trust me.
Your elbow is even less sensitive, sooo... go around and touch metals with your elbows!
And when someone is watching me when i try to touch the Gates handle.. they amazed by my action and wondering what i m trying to do ???🤔😂🤣
I always do that, or the upper part of my hand
I’ll try that. I’ve been punching things to get the pain out of the way lmao
@@9548470cm 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
When I was a kid, my best friend and I used to have static shock wars at music class. The carpet and metal chairs were perfect to keep our highly charged battle going. Sometimes we would call a truce and zap other kids instead. The teacher was shocked at our behavior.
My sister and I did the same thing all winter at home.
What use did the metal chairs had in your electric battle? Because your body is charging up, when you rub your socks on the carpet. Cave you tried to charge the whole cair?
Eddy Baller you must be a Satan.
Eddy Baller I would try to get the longest bolts I could possibly get.
Eddy Baller ohhhh the dad joke right at the end was the cherry on the cake hahah
I absolutely HATE it when nasty electrons build up on me!
Sorry for being so... negative.
Master Therion Is that the symbol of Behemoth? Horns up! \m/
Master Therion ohm my god. Try to be more positive! Or build up some resistance!
WileyK
Good advice. I should try meditation, "Ohm, ohm, ohm."
Master Therion I heard listening to music is good too so amp it up.
I hope these guys aren't CHARGING you for their bad advice.
A simple way to prevent a shock is to "ground" the charge just by touching floor or a nearby wall. That will get rid of the charge without a shock. Done it many times.
I've done this I just realized that it was working so now I thought the window of doors or something like that
Thanks for the tip❤
Even a wood wall?
@@GwendolynGraves no, only the common brick wall.
@@Gr8Passion4Music I think you are pulling my leg lol
UGHHHHH, I hate it. In school, when I open my locker, I have to use my winter coat to touch it, and everyone stares at me ;-; For some reason, everyone else rarely has any shocks, while I get around 10 to 20 shocks daily ;-;
This often happens to my locker as well. I hate it because I look stupid or weird in front of people who don’t understand what is happening:(
Me too!
Heh my school doesn't have any locker : )
I feel like the people who hate it(you) get it A LOT. But the people who like it(me) get it rarely.Ik I am weird. I just love the feeling. IDK why? Lol
@@LakhwinderSingh-ti6kc i am actually rarely get the static shock..ngl I actually get 1-2 in 3 year
My cat hates winter because every time he tries to nuzzle my hand, he gets shocked right on his pink little nose.
lol Mine too, then he looks at me accusingly as if to say "Wtf was that for?"
Hey, I didn't do it. Blame physics.
peachy keen oh no! This made me legit worried
Maybe you should wear cotton clothes in winter.
peachy keen same here... Except she gets shocked in about anywhere
i recommend getting a good ground type, or pokemon with the lightningrod ability
Best comment in this video xD
g r o u d o n b e s t c h o i c e
Maybe motor drive too! :D
MultiQuanzaAVQ like magikarp who will faint as you shock it
Or Volt Absorb.
Has anyone pointed out that the shadow coming from her glasses make it look like she's crying black?
Just me?
Okay...
Nice now i cant watch this video normal anymore
She has strange glasses😅😅😅
I scrolled 5 minutes to find someone pointing this out
Copy cat
Oops wrong comment XD
Lightning physicist here: You're mostly right but I want to add some details. There are two main cloud particles involved, ice pellets and graupels, or "soft hail" (opaque ice rime that accumulates on snowflakes, forming 2-5mm balls). The rate at which they accumulate mass seems to determine which charge positive and which charge negative when they collide, and the accumulation depends temperature and other atmospheric factors. Usually the graupels charge negative and the strong updrafts hold them pretty much stationary in the lower portion of the cloud. The lighter ice pellets are then lifted up near the top of the cloud.
The lower positive region you mentioned is present in all thunderclouds and it is not a mystery, it's a result of discontinues conductivity going from the cloud to the open air below it. It's essentially a "reflection" of the main negative charge region. An upper negative region forms at the top of the cloud for the same reason. Some people discuss alternative charge formations, but my boss and most of the professors at my school believe all formations are the same, the amount of charge in each layer just varies so they can appear differently, especially with flawed methodology in measuring the charge. And my school has the largest collection of lightning physicists anywhere in the world so their opinion carries some weight.
Only like 20 or so people in the world actively study the physics of lightning though, so you did pretty well getting the details you did.
Leave it up to some "Proffesional" guy to tell his "history" when absolutely nobody asked.
thanks for the info,
I just saw a news article about lightning research that used a radio telescope array in the Netherlands to track how lightning begins and propagates in storm clouds. So cool!
@@O.LEO.N if I’m correct, I’d bet this young lady felt very proud of her knowledge and content after someone with such clout and experience affirmed her. She likely learned and appreciated the added info and even the corrections. Most professionals at this level who are willing to put themselves out there aren’t going to take it personally. I didn’t ask this professor but I really enjoyed the deeper information. Take care!
The fact that you’ve become this knowledgeable on the subject and so proficient in educating on it is almost as fascinating as the mystery itself! I’d bet most above average intelligence people can’t retain enough scientific knowledge to reach a good understanding of electrical charges and their properties and effects. Thanks for sharing.
I literally got shocked 30 seconds before getting this push notification. I feel like the universe is trying to tell me something
Tyler Harris *dies*
New vid: Why do people die?
It's telling you to stomach the zaps you pansy.
Omg me too, I got shocked by my phone before watching this
Happilicious I dont think that should happen...
I'm *shocked* that you got to experience such an experience.
Im getting shocked 5..7times in a day.. i am feel like im special.. i told my frnds n no body believes me. But now im feel better n normal.. 😁🇮🇳
Same here .my mom told me "kuch kami h terme,,"😂😂
This is happening so much I am gaining a fear of touching metal, or more precisely static electricity
_accidently gives my friend static shock_
Me: *I AM THE GOD OF THUNDER, THOR*
I get shock constantly everywhere. It makes me so angry. Wintertime in Sweden is really painful for me :(
I remember flinching every time I used a water fountain because I would literally get shocked in the lips by the metal THROUGH the stream
One I always love about this channel is the science behind it, sometimes there isn't an answer but more information that raises more questions, or answers that prove fruitless, but it's always still new information to get the theory closer to the truth
When you touch someone’s arm and get electric shots
To avoid getting zapped when leaving the car, just hold onto the side of the car and put your foot on the ground and get out. This way you won't get a shock when closing the door.
Tip:
If there is any live vegetation nearby, touch a leaf to get rid of those electrons. The shock seems only half as bad as touching metal in my experience.
Since my teenage years until now, I avoid stainless handles. Last night was different. I saw long sparks on my shirt and that crackling sounds, it was fun.
i remember in highschool, our folding plastic bleachers built up a big charge fast and when you touched someone, you could see the lighting bolt and it hurt a lot more than if you were to just get zapped on a door nob
The positive bottoms of clouds may be a result of electrostatic induction. In "normal" clouds, the negative bottom forces the ground to become more positive, as the electrons are repelled by the negatively charged clouds. This "negative ground charge" must go somewhere. Thus, on rare occasions, a large amount of negative ground charge may gather, being "corralled" by the surrounding "Normal clouds". Now that the ground has a negative charge, it could induce a charge in a cloud above it. This could result in an inversion of the normal orientation, and leave a positively charged bottom above a negatively charged ground.
I think it's an elegant solution, for a first try.
I could be wrong, but I might be right.
Ffs I was getting shocked by my blanket and it was lightening up with a spark of light everytime while "clicking" but the shock itself didnt hurt. I felt like a wizard but now Im kind of scared and need to dump this away from me. I dont want to cause a fire..
I'm not sure if there is any coordination but every single door at my job shocks me and it always happens after I tap my badge to unlock a door. I get zapped anywhere from 30-50 times a day depending on how often I leave my patients. I start as a Nurse Admin on the 23rd and I can honestly tell you that I'm more nervous of the fact that I will enter a new room almost every minute than anything genuinely job related.
The conveyer belt at work shock me and the fork lift every other time I touch it thinking of looking for new job it’s getting so bad
And what's worse is that there is very little empathy towards people like us!!!
Thanks for the car key tip! It’ll help me a lot. I get shocked all the time in winter.
In the winter in my office the shocks are SUPER painful. Sometimes when I'd get a cup of water in a foam cup, the water shocks my front teeth 😫
CiderDivider oy really
That is not normal, is it?...
Oh screw that 😤😤
Tf😨 poor u bruv.... That sounds painfully painful.
The freaking elevator button at work!! >.<
Stairs seem lovely..now.
I can relate to the humidity statement because when I used to live in a tropical place I wouldnt get shocked that much but once I moved to Nevada, a place with almost no humidity I get shocked everyday a few times so it could be that then lol
Why does the humidity theory not apply to me? I live in a country where it can be very humid, but I get zapped regardless!
I used to hate getting shocked by static, but then you called it tiny lightning.
Brb rubbing my feet on the carpet.
The REAL title of the Video Should of been "How to test your superpowers on your doorknob"
One thing I did not see mentioned here which I figured out just by doing it, is to touch another surface before you go for the door handle. For example I will put one hand on the door itself or the frame, then touch the handle with the other hand after, while still keeping my opposite hand touching the door/frame. It either makes the charge so small/spread out that I don't feel it/notice it, or it just gets rid of it before hand i believe. Not 100% why it works, but its much easier than walking weird or changing the kind of clothes you wear.
My computer table used to be made of metal. I remember being a teenager and receiving a shock everytime i'd sit at the computer. I even rebooted the computer once with a shock
Your casting has really improved Olivia, I genuinely enjoy watching your videos now.
Most people are unaware of static shock weather in Winter but I am usually fairly aware. I don't know why that is, but I can remember the first time (in high school) that I knew I was going to get shocked when I touched a door bar. It may have something to do with my hairy arms (strawberry blonde and pretty fine)... Before that of course, it used to be something painful and annoying but I also discovered that by touching metal objects with the back of my hand (during those times of built up static) I could reduce the pain (many times over) of zapping myself in a painful area (finger tips). Now it is second nature during Winter static days to tap door knobs with the back of my hand and the static discharge then is barely noticeable. I do still get zapped on occasion but not very often.
0:24 I feel this pain when I touch a laptop, sometimes doorknobs, my BED, my chargers, my desk and more but I knew about the first and third thing they talked about
I really wanted to know if you discharge your built up static into something metallic, how long does it retain that stored voltage? Does it dissipate on its own quickly or does it stay in the metal for a while because its so conductive. Just wondering if its seconds, minutes, or hours.
JUST TODAY I RECIEVED A STATIC SHOCK FROM A TREEE!!! I thought that was not possible
One phenomenON, multiple phenomenA.
It helps to touch metals with as much skin as possible, so mainly with your hole palm rather than a finger tip.
Yah sometimes i did
I slam my fist at my locker and it doesn’t shock me
I was just trying to connect the ps2 and ended up learning words way past my vocabulary
I’m watching this rn, because I just got shocked by the loudest sounding shock which hurt my finger so much almost like to the bone
I’m literally scared to touch anything
Yahya ikr? I feel paranoid all the time.
Same here
me too .. had the problem all my life... its not fun
For the past month I’ve been getting zapped by everything! My metal bed frame, my iPod, my PS4... The bed frame hurt the most. 😢
But it’s been super cold here, so I guess that’s why this is happening.
Olivia really improved her hosting. Less wiggleing around, less monotone voice, less repetitive gestures.
Gj!
Oh and she seems waaaay more confident!
Interesting. I remember the old scishow video on static electricity where hank said that friction didn't play a role and the rubbing just served to ensure that more of the surfaces made contact with each other. Seems like you need to add a note on that one!
Electrifying!
John OBrien electro wizard
STEVEN BRO
Ice wizard
John OBrien Zap!
Shocking!
Laura K positively shocking
Poofy jacket + dry cold winter + metal car = shocking experience
"So you don't have to be afraid of doorknobs" *shows wooden doorknob*
Static electricity makes so much more sense now! Love learning the science behind everyday stuff
I get shocked by the dryer to the point of visible lightning between my finger and the dryer. I've learned to apply a ton of moisturiser to my hands and use a damp cloth to take things out of the dryer.
When you watch this video to more effectively shock your friends. >:)
I hate it when I get out of the car and closing the door it gets me, it's like even if I get out of it after one minute constantly all day
I’ve read the comments, and see that there are some with DIFFERENT POTENTIALS for solutions, but a good GROUNDING in basic electrical science will be needed to solve this.
I swear a quesadilla shoked me 6 times in less than 15min
I just got electrocuted by my blanket.
*I'm now sleeping on the floor.*
Hahahahhahahahahahahhahhahahahahah
I always get shocked at the local grocery store, which has no carpet. I usually wear cotton, so is the charge somewhere in the store's metal shelves? It's pretty strong, & I've thought about asking a manager if they have a short or bad connection somewhere.
I just saw a news article about lightning research that used a radio telescope array in the Netherlands to track how lightning begins and propagates in storm clouds. So cool!
Hardwood floors baby, I haven't been shocked since I moved into my new house. :D
I find it weird that humans can know a lot about every part of a system but yet do not fully understand how that system work.
Yeah, I used to have a blanket that crackle and pop with visible bolts of static electricity whenever you removed from my bed. Once it was so bad that somehow it caused my ceiling light to go out. I don't know if that was a coincidence but it hasn't turned back on to this day almost a decade later. I'm sure we could fix it, but well... who doesn't love a good story.
I believe you but change the lightbulb and your light will come on again. True story😂
As I was getting off my metal bed in the dark my finger sparked blue charge to it
I use to get a lot of shock and many time i use to avoid touching things (mobile, laptop, People, metallic ). Sometime it look funny as well when you touch sometime and get a shock people nearby would notice you acting weird for no reason ( it is hard to explain other exactly what has happen ).
You guys came here to avoid it
But i am here to know how it works and give shock to my friend!!!!
I presume the wool carpet regains it's lost electrons over time? If so is that a fast process or a slow one?
you know what? i'm just gonna start wearing a thimble at all times, don't know if winter is extra dry this year or if it's my shoes but i'm getting zapped constantly these days
I know the rolling of my office chair and using my car are the two actions that build up the most charge, so I found places to touch my upper arm that will ground my charge.
I have a small ground wire attached to my body, and I always have it clipped to metal.
It's never happened to me before this year, all of a sudden I am shocked like 30 times a day.
Same when i lived in tropical country in asia never had but when i moved to az, im afraid again to touch any metal instantly bcs of electric shock several times a day, i would have any fabric on my hand b4 touching metals some ppl think it weird hopefully they know to feel being grounded all the time.. :(
try this: if you change your cloth and pull your pullover over your head, do it in the dark and open your eyes. you will see many sparkles like little lightnings.
My friends call me ''Electro'' for this reason. I am here to seek answers. I don't touch metallic objects after working out. I often hear electric sounds when I'm taking off my clothes.
same here
I thought I was the wizard for a moment there
I still don't know what this girl's name is, but I just wanted to say she's come a long way since she started on scishow. She seems way more comfortable and animated while talking and it makes for much better viewing. Good work!
vahnn0. Her name is Olivia.
i get shocked everyday at work , it doesn't even shock me anymore
But-um-chh
That feeling when you watch this video to learn how to static shock other people
My socks rub against my shoes, so I can shock on command at school
*THANK YOU FOR THESE HELPFUL INFOS!* 😩😩
Me : touches metal
My whole body : *oops*
Me : fall and pain sound
Olivia is so bright and positive here. I like her this way.
"You can also try touching things with something metal first"
But why does the metal car door shock us but not the metal key?
Because the car has a path to ground and the key does not.
No, because the key acts as an intermediate conductor. The spark is a result of a difference in electrons in your body (typically from wearing certain materials in colder weather and rubbing back and forth as you sit and drive; the charge accumulates on your body) and the car having a different level of "electron charge" but, the car is insulated from Ground (neutral) by the rubber in its tires.
So, you have an abundance of electrons (- - - ) and the car has a deficit of electrons (+ + + ) and as you get out of the car, touching only the plastic armrest or door handle, your charge remains high.
When your hand touches the metal door handle, ZAP!! The electron charges balance. Or if a metal car key touching your hand, then touches a metal door lock, ZAP!! The charges balance.
If the spark happens at the tip of the car key, of course you would not feel it. Your nerve endings are in your finger tips and the gap between finger and key is pretty much nil.
Problem now is, so many car surfaces are not metallic, but plastic, resin, heavily painted (with paint as an insulating material) that people do not feel these sparks anymore. Much. It is the stuff I recall happening 20, 25, 30 or more years ago, and not so much in 2020.
(Described here for posterity.)
This happens when im with my friends at the mall and we touch each other and were getting shocked 😆
When I lived in Maryland, I kept on getting shocked in the wintertime! It was pretty scary!
a simple trick to avoid getting shocked is to just exit your house through the chimney during the winter, your neighbors may stare but you are the pain free genius.
Lol
When you start looking for your phone while watching a video... on my phone.
I always get a shock whenever I get out of my car. It will happen when I am out of the car standing on the ground and I touch the edge of the door to close it. I usually drive but it only happens when I get out of the Driver's seat. It doesn't matter what I'm wearing: shorts, jeans, sweat pants; t-shirt, cotton shirt, polyester shirt; jacket, no jacket. I also thought that it had something to do with my car; the way I get into or out of the seat, materials i rub against in the car, or even a grounding problem, but it started when I had my 2006 black honda civic. I drove that for a few years, then I bought my 2014 light blue subaru outback. I still get shocked in the same way with my new car. I've got into the habit of touching the car door with my shoulder as i get out to dissipate the shock through clothing so it's less intense. Anyone have any thoughts or experience the same thing?
Fran Mialkowski this happens to me all the time
oh yeah it happened to me too! i was thinking there was something wrong with my car, its electrical wirings
I've never gotten shocked. 😀😀😀
I find if I put a finger on the back door as I step out the power doesn't build up.
Lex Beltran why tf you here then?
THE SHOK DOSE NOT EVEN HURT!!!
*gets shocked*
“ouch, woah i got shocked, that felt weird”
scishow: STATIC TURNS THE WORLD INTO A DANGEROUS PAINFUL MINEFIELD
Im here cause i took off my robe to sleep in complete darkness and when I was tucking it, the thing lit up like it was freaking luminescent lol I never woke up so fast
That is why I’m on CZcams right now. Freaky.
A ground type pokemon card in your pocket will prevent you from getting shocked
Felixkeeg facts
OH MY GOD IT WORKED! THANKS GROUDON!!!!!! #groudon saves life's LOL
what is a ground type Pokemon and where do i get one ... i am soo fed up with getting static shocks had them all my life
Please please tell me what is this
@@ranjitgill1491 it was a joke. Just carry a key around to touch objects
When I was a kid many years ago, my dad and I would play a static shock tag in the winter. The metal cased tv remote was a favorite cattle prod 😂.
Costco must have hidden camera watching people get zapped as they push the carts and try to open the dam freezer doors...heck a few feet and the cart starts to zap too 🤣😆😅
My college Physics professor once told us the secret to making static shocks not so bad was to touch metal objects in winter with the knuckles on your hand first, as there are far fewer nerve endings there to register pain. I still use this tip today.
Smart!!! It will keep you safer to always touch anything suspicious of electricity this way. For example if you ever accidentally touch something with an electric short out and it’s small enough for your hand to grip… If the charge is strong enough your hand will grip it involuntarily and you’ll be stuck there! This happened to my poor sis on an electric wire fence when we went to go see some horses. We were just tiny girls. Thank God someone was smart enough to run out in his big old rubber boots with a giant wire cutter or my sister may not be alive today because she could not let go and anyone who tried to touch her got zapped real bad. I was inly 5 yrs old but I remember him running out and screaming “don’t pull on her! Stop pulling on her! You’re going to pull her fingers off!” I wish I could think that man for saving my sister.
When I'm going to sleep, i like to rub my hands in my fluffy banket and it makes electric fireworks i like to play with it with my hands every night
Yes me too :)
me too😂
Same😁
It's always nice to see scientist talking about a topic they don't understand...
I think it's awesome. My favorite is going to unlock the door in the winter. The little electrical bolt is visible jumping from my key to the door handle.
This only happend to me in the summer
Søren Kaas Because the air is more humid then and the water helps the charge
TheNukeMan water doesnt help the "charge". If you watched the video and understood it.. humid air is a better conductor than dry air. Therefore less chance of getting zapped since electrons will just (slowly) fly into the humid air.
It's probably an external reason why that person gets shocked like, wearing different clothes or doing other activities.
Søren Kaas Happens to me all the time at work. Nylon uniform, lots of air conditioning, bad combo.
Perhaps highly air conditioned air means the indoors air, where you are, is dryer than it is in the winter.
Ken O it's extremely dry, needs to be to be honest, lots of medicines.
My GF once wanted me to taste something from a spoon she held. That shock went right into my teeth...boy. I literally died twice 😅😅😅
And I just got zapped right now, thats why im here 🙄
Me too..
Same
The comments section were very informative and some were hilarious