Question

While travelling back to his residence in the car, Dr. Pathak was caught up in a thunderstorm. It became very dark. He stopped driving the car and waited for thunderstorm to stop. Suddenly he noticed a child walking alone on the road. He asked the boy to come inside the car till the thunderstorm stopped. Dr. Pathak dropped the boy at his residence. The boy insisted that Dr. Pathak should meet his parents. The parents expressed their gratitude to Dr. Pathak for his concern for safety of the child.

Answer the following question based on the above information:

(a) Why is it safer to sit inside a car during a thunderstorm?

(b) Which two values are displayed by Dr. Pathak in his actions?

(c) Which values are reflected in parents’ response to Dr. Pathak?

(d) Give an example of a similar action on your part in the past from everyday life.

Answer 1

(a) On the basis of electrostatic screening, no electric field exists inside the charged conducting body. During lightening a shower of the charged particles falls on the earth. So it would be safer to sit inside the car.

(b) Dr. Pathak knows the result of lightening during thunderstorm; so he displayed two actions;

(i) Shows love, kindness and sympathy to the child.

(ii) Keeping in view the safety of the child, he allow the boy to sit in the car till the thunderstorm stopped.

(c) Parent meets Dr. Pathak; and express their gratitude and heart felt thank for providing the safety to the child from lightening and thunderstorm.

(d) Many of us have read in the newspaper that the person either working in the field or in open space have lost their life during thunderstorm, so the persons belonging to villages must be given advices that they should remain inside the houses (or closed caves etc.) during thunderstorm.