Electricity may be categorized as static or current. How are these two types of electricity different?

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irishboy123 · Answer

one is static.  hence the name.

the other is .... ?

anonymous · Answer

current

irishboy123 · Answer

indeed! But....

that name ["current"] is rather less descriptive, in the sense that *static* electric is *static* and not moving whereas the "other type" is non-static......and so it is .....?

fretje · Answer

both refer to materials that have built up an amount of electric charge, so that an electric field comes to existence, with properties like electric field strength, but unlike with static electricity, where the charge can not give rise to an electric current because these charges are isolated, in the current type electricity, there is transport of the charge carrying particles, so the electricity is on the move.

nincompoop · Answer

CURRENT FLOWS, STATIC IS OPPOSITE

michele_laino · Answer

furthermore, an electrostatic charge is able to create an electrostatic field only, whereas a current is able to create a magnetic field

fretje · Answer

@Michele_Laino of course, i hadn't thought of that in all my enthousiasm and probably in awe of some motion paradox.