Physics Blog 9

Last Sunday night, I was watching the new episode of Family Guy on Fox.  After it was finished, I went to do physics homework worksheet 24A, I remembered the episode of Family Guy where Peter becomes electric man.  In the beginning of the episode, he gets a fury body suit and throughout the episode he terrorizes his family by shocking them.  I then went back and watched that segment of the episode and related it to physics.  Peter rubs his feet on the rug to become positively charged due to friction.  He then touches one of his family members to reduce the charge imbalance.  Peter then becomes neutral again.  Although this episode was hilarious, it was inaccurate.  The rug and the suit were probably made from similar materials and therefore they have the same desire for their electrons.  Peter would not have become positively charged because he would not lose electrons through friction.  What a killjoy.

 Heres a clip (Terrible Quality):