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OpenStudy (anonymous):

MEDAL AND FAN,PROMISE..MULTIPLE CHOICE How does an electrostatic generator operate? A motor drives a belt moving through magnets. An electric motor causes electricity to flow through a moving belt. Electrons are stripped off a pad. Electrons are transferred to a metallic sphere.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

@lisakt1996

OpenStudy (anonymous):

@betterwiththelightsoff99

OpenStudy (anonymous):

@Frostbite

OpenStudy (anonymous):

1.An electric generator is a device which converts mechanical energy to electric energy.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

2.An electric motor causes electricity to flow through a moving belt. Electrons are transferred to a metallic sphere.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

idk about number 3..

OpenStudy (anonymous):

WE CAN HAVE MORE THEN 1 CHOICE...2 AND 4 R CORRECT?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

@betterwiththelightsoff99

OpenStudy (frostbite):

Have you heard about the triboelectric effect?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

yep...but i don't remember it

OpenStudy (anonymous):

oh sorry i thought it wasnt multiple choice

OpenStudy (anonymous):

2 and 4 r correct? thats my answer for this question! is that right?

OpenStudy (frostbite):

This effect is what is responsible for many electrostatic generators. To explain the effect in simplicity consider two objects both different but unspecified material, but capable of reacting with each other. What happens is that chemical bounds are being created between the two objects, but when removed from each other some of the electrons that are used in the bound can be taken with one of the objects. So seems ok for me. Don't know how much they first one reminds of induction... for me 0

OpenStudy (frostbite):

But that pad thingy... you know what it is made of?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

nice I didn't remembered that

OpenStudy (frostbite):

dependsing what it is made of then that can also be a answer... I believe.

OpenStudy (frostbite):

depending*

OpenStudy (anonymous):

ok..

OpenStudy (anonymous):

let me read about it

OpenStudy (frostbite):

Sorry I can't give you 100% good answer, but the question is kinda vague. :/

OpenStudy (anonymous):

ok! u r good...lol r u a senior?

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