Your Uncle warns you not to \"grab\" 120V because it \"won\'t let go of you\". B

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Your Uncle warns you not to "grab" 120V because it "won't let go of you". Briefly discuss and explain this misconception.

For this question, I understand that the voltage needs to find a pathway through your body, and once it does so it will "let go" of you, but how and why does it let go of you once it finds the pathway through your body? I'm quite confused how to go about discussing and explaining this misconception. It was an exam question that I missed, and I'm trying to review over it. Thanks in advance for any help you guys can provide.

Explanation / Answer

This can be seen more clearly in the welding. You must have heard of arc welding, in their there is some space between two conductors but the voltage difference is so much, the current transfers through air which is cosndiered to be a non-conductor.

So 120 V is very high compared to 0 as is cosnidered by many biologists so it is not exactly a misconception because it takes a lot more force to break your contact with 120 V when compared to less votlags like 20 V. It is just not discussed with required technical explanation.

That is all.

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