1 (a) Electrostatics can be viewed either as beneficiary or destructive. Explain the latter and former with an application for each?
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Answer:answered segment wise
Step-by-step explanation:
Destructive:
Electronic systems malfunctions are largely being attached due to the electrostatic discharge effects. Owing to the fact that increasingly deployment of sensitive data-processing machines in the static prone environments, these effects does create a chance for unreliability. Discharge of static electricity near an active electronic system can lead to memory corruption or temporary failure owing to latch up of the device, which is usually recoverable on re-start. Although at the device level, electrostatic discharges may cause complete destruction.
Useful:
Xerography
Most of the copying machines basically use an electrostatic process called xerography which is a word derived from the Greek words xeros meaning dry and graphos that means writing.
An aluminum drum which is coated with selenium is sprinkled upon with positive charge from various points on a device known as corotron. Selenium is a substance that has a unique interesting property being a photoconductor. For which selenium works as an insulator when in the dark and acts as a conductor when exposed to light.