April 26, 2024. Don't Read Today's Posting -- Kind of boring!
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Today's post reminds me of a cheesy 1930's black and white movie where
this group of adventurer's lands on a remote Pacific Island and finds that
the nati...
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I just love Minute Physics! Thanks, Bill.
ReplyDeleteInteresting! If electron drift is only .0000000001% of the speed of light then it takes 3.5 + minutes for a charge to transit a one foot long wire? That accounts for my slow signals!
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Ooops! Slip of the calculator! Just under a millisecond. But still much much too slow. Nearly a second for a thousand foot wire.
ReplyDeleteIndividual electrons take a surprisingly long time to move through wire (they are VERY small!)
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What moves rapidly is the ENERGY we are producing!
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