Electrostatic!!!
Electricity and Magnetism
Level
1
You are travelling in a car during a thunder Storm. In order to protect yourself from lightning you would prefer to
come out from the car
take shelter under a tree
remain in the car
touch the nearest electric pole
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1 solution
A metallic cage ( such as the car ) possesses the property of electric shielding, by which the cage sets up an electric field to nullify the outside electric field to produce the shielding effect. This is because there cannot be any electric field inside a metallic body. Among the other options, no condition provides the zero electric field. One can refer to the following video to get the picture : www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHfgqDcEqfA