It is easy to produce a potential difference of several thousand volts between your body and the
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It is easy to produce a potential difference of several thousand volts between your body and the floor by scuffing your shoes across a nylon carpet. When you touch a metal doorknob, you get a mild shock. Yet contact with a power line of comparable voltage would probably be fatal. Why is there a difference?
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University Physics with Modern Physics
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Authors: Hugh D. Young, Roger A. Freedman
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