Physics: Principles with Applications
Physics: Principles with Applications
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ISBN: 9780130606204
Author: Douglas C. Giancoli
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Chapter 16, Problem 2Q

Why does a shirt or blouse taken from a clothes dryer sometimes cling to your body?

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Why does a shirt or blouse taken from clothes dryer sometimes cling to your body?

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As the clothes keep rubbing against each other and build up of static electricity, it is attracted to the opposite charge that is present on the body. Hence, clothes cling to the body.

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When the clothes are tumbled and tossed in the dryer, they keep rubbing against each other and build up static electricity and electric forces due to static electricity. The static electricity is build up of charges on the clothes, and it is attracted to the opposite charge that is present on the body. Since opposite charges attract, hence clothes cling to the body.

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