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You sometimes create a spark when you touch a doorknob aftershuffling your feet on a carpet. Why? The air always has a few freeelectrons that have been kicked out of atoms by cosmic rays. If anelectric field is present, a free electron is accelerated until itcollides with an air molecule. It will transfer its kinetic energyto the molecule, then accelerate, then collide, then accelerate,collide, and so on. If the electron

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