When watching The Sorcerer's Apprentice curiosity struck me when watching one particular scene, that one scene scene being when the protagonist was inside a Faraday cage. That one scene left me with an underlying question which is how in the world was the protagonist not electrified when he was in the cage?
Have you ever wondered just how much we depend on electricity. Well I have and I have to say that electricity has become the essence of many aspects in this planet. Actually our body would not function without electrical charge running through our cells. Yet again what electricity can give can also take away.
Benjamin Franklin was one who helped in the development behind Faraday cages although it was indirectly. How so? Well in 1755, Ben …show more content…
Redistribution of charges occurs when classified conductors such as copper or aluminum have negatively charged particles that move around throughout the metals, and when there is no existent electric charge the conductor therefore has closely to equivalent number of positive and negative particles. When an external object that has an electric charge comes in contact with the conductor, the positive and negative particles will separate. The electrons with the charge opposite to that of the external charge will be drawn to that outside object, while electrons with that equivalent charge as the external object will repel and move away from the object. This redistribution of charges is also known as electrostatic induction. Hence, the way a Faraday cage works as an external electric field which causes electric charges that are within the conducting material of the cage-such as that of the can in Ben Franklin’s experiment with the cork ball-to be distributed in such a way that they will cancel the field’s effect in the inside of the cage and that is why the protagonist was not electrified and possibly killed when inside the Faraday cage. Faraday cages are actually widely used even though they are not as obvious compared to actually having someone sit in a cage while electrons are being shot at the cage. For example, your car is basically classified as a Faraday cage because if your car was to be struck with lightning, the charge of the lightning would actually gravitate to the metal of the car while little to no electric field would be produced in the inside of the
Have you ever wondered just how much we depend on electricity. Well I have and I have to say that electricity has become the essence of many aspects in this planet. Actually our body would not function without electrical charge running through our cells. Yet again what electricity can give can also take away.
Benjamin Franklin was one who helped in the development behind Faraday cages although it was indirectly. How so? Well in 1755, Ben …show more content…
Redistribution of charges occurs when classified conductors such as copper or aluminum have negatively charged particles that move around throughout the metals, and when there is no existent electric charge the conductor therefore has closely to equivalent number of positive and negative particles. When an external object that has an electric charge comes in contact with the conductor, the positive and negative particles will separate. The electrons with the charge opposite to that of the external charge will be drawn to that outside object, while electrons with that equivalent charge as the external object will repel and move away from the object. This redistribution of charges is also known as electrostatic induction. Hence, the way a Faraday cage works as an external electric field which causes electric charges that are within the conducting material of the cage-such as that of the can in Ben Franklin’s experiment with the cork ball-to be distributed in such a way that they will cancel the field’s effect in the inside of the cage and that is why the protagonist was not electrified and possibly killed when inside the Faraday cage. Faraday cages are actually widely used even though they are not as obvious compared to actually having someone sit in a cage while electrons are being shot at the cage. For example, your car is basically classified as a Faraday cage because if your car was to be struck with lightning, the charge of the lightning would actually gravitate to the metal of the car while little to no electric field would be produced in the inside of the