A SIMPLE CONCEPT....

what will happen to a person sitting in a stationary car if lightning strikes the car...

23 Answers

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Pavithra Ramamoorthy ·

no.. electrostatic shieldin takes place there...

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Celestine preetham ·

E is 0 inside conductor so no shock

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prateek punj ·

thanx guys for all ur help.....

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Pavithra Ramamoorthy ·

if so we r in contact wit d earth..... so we get a shock... srrry if am wron....

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prateek punj ·

ans it guys...

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prateek punj ·

i got ur ans that electric shielding takes place and the person gets protected.....
but wat happens in the above mentioned case.....

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prateek punj ·

since E.Field inside is zero i.e the external field don't have an effect......
then that i mentioned when the rubber tyres of the car r replaced by steel wheels then the person get a shock.......
HOW!!!!!!

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Pavithra Ramamoorthy ·

no i say dat elec field inside a conductor is zero.... so d metal body acts as a conductor n field inside it s zero.. actually elec shieldin takes dis principle....

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prateek punj ·

in case of electric shielding no electric field affect....
but u r saying that current will flow thru the body....
now let me know the correct ans of my ques....

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Pavithra Ramamoorthy ·

no i say dat elec field inside a conductor is zero.... so d metal body acts as a conductor n field inside it s zero.. actually elec shieldin takes dis principle....

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prateek punj ·

u r saying that shielding takes place when current flows to earth....
please clear that...

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Pavithra Ramamoorthy ·

d body provides elec shieldin n d electric discharge passes thro d body...

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Anirudh Narayanan ·

Nothing will happen? Because the circuit is not complete if current passes through us?

Forgive me if I'm blabbering. I'm feeling [13]

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prateek punj ·

@ram...
if the tyres of the car r replaced by the steel wheels then the person will get a shock though at that time the shock takes place due to flow of charges to earth and not through person...

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rahul ·

let what the hell happen outside, unless the car is made of thermocol or plastic,, he will not be affected.

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Pavithra Ramamoorthy ·

hey aragorn was rit,... actually d body of d car ll protect d man inside d car...

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prateek punj ·

ans it guys...

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prateek punj ·

@ aragorn come into action buddy...
ans this one...

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prateek punj ·

but buddy when lightning strikes the electric charge will flow some moment only(just a slight moment).....
and that the electric charges in lightning r too much and will produce a large amount of current for a slight moment only till the electric charges get equaly distributed on the surface of the metal and that current is too much to kill a person......
even a small amount of current makes us strangled for a moment...

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Aneesh Gupta ·

of a metallic conductor!

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prateek punj ·

@ ANEESH, charges at the surface of wat...

@Aragorn, i couldn't understand u, circuit is not complete,which circuit buddy and also ur talks of current passing through us......

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Aneesh Gupta ·

bcos of the fact that electric charge stays at the surface..

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prateek punj ·

how nothing w'll happen.....

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