Used in physics to describe phenomena involving stationary electric charges.

Scientific Term

Common in daily life, like static electricity from rubbing balloons on your sweater.

Everyday Examples

Emphasizes the charge's lack of movement, as opposed to electrical currents.

Non-Moving Charges

 the windy atmosphere of a disk should constantly break them up as they crash into each other. The question of how they continue to grow is the first mystery of dust bunnies. One theory looks to electrostatic charge to answer this.

The dust bunnies that...

 Under electrostatic effect, it changes stiffness. So under zero voltage, the material is compliant, it's floppy like paper. Then the button's pushed, a voltage is applied, and it becomes stiff as a board.

Electrostatic