Question

1. During a lightning storm why would you want to avoid trees and lie low in a depression?

2. Clouds are charged, sometimes at opposite potentials. An airplane is made of metal (electrode) and not electrically tied to anything (floating electrically). Is there any danger for passengers? And why or why not is that the case?

Answer 1

1.) during lightening storm we avoid trees because trees are good comductor of electricity. If we stay near tree, we may face electric currents of any voltage. that may be too high that may burn our body togather with green trees.

2.) ailplane are made up of matal but during lightening passangers are safe insinde from any current by lightening storm because airplane are of matalic hollow structured. Inside any conducting hollow structure total charges become zero and hence no electric field exist and hence passangers are safe from lightening to stuck them. It is fully safe to sit inside your car during lightening storm. the reason is same ' zero electric field inside hollow conducting structure.