Research Journal of Engineering and Technology
  • Year: 2021
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue: 3

Different Stages of Lightning and its effect on Computers and Mobile Phones

Department of Applied Sciences, Delhi Global Institute of Technology, Haryana, India

*Corresponding Author E-mail: shelly.rajput@rediffmail.com

Online published on 2 July, 2022.

Abstract

It is common notion that electric gadgets like; computer, laptop and mobile phone could be a potential device for conducting lightning. It is also believed the electricity travelling through the radio waves associated with the devices and deliver a shock to the person using them. The present article is a review of different stages of cloud-to-ground lightning discharge and also explore the possibility of a computer, laptop and mobile phone providing a lightning path through the user to the ground.

Keywords

Lightning, Electric gadgets