Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Coils, Magnets, and Special Relativity (video)



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5 comments:

  1. Mike KC7ITFebruary 6, 2014 at 4:04 PM

    I just love Minute Physics! Thanks, Bill.

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  2. Don, ND6TFebruary 6, 2014 at 6:56 PM

    Interesting! 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!
    How long is YOUR antenna?

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  3. Don, ND6TFebruary 6, 2014 at 7:09 PM

    Ooops! Slip of the calculator! Just under a millisecond. But still much much too slow. Nearly a second for a thousand foot wire.

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  4. Bill MearaFebruary 7, 2014 at 5:36 AM

    Individual electrons take a surprisingly long time to move through wire (they are VERY small!)
    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100419195002AA2kF6H

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  5. UnknownFebruary 8, 2014 at 11:44 AM

    What moves rapidly is the ENERGY we are producing!

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