Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!wmartin From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) Newsgroups: net.sci Subject: Re: Question about Electricity Message-ID: <2709@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 11:42:53 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.2709 Posted: Fri Nov 1 11:42:53 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 04:58:16 EST References: <621@hlwpc.UUCP> <662@petrus.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: USAMC ALMSA, St. Louis, MO Lines: 21 In article <662@petrus.UUCP> mwg@petrus.UUCP (Mark Garrett) writes: [Carried-forward query] >> If you put a live electrical wire into a large >> swimming pool, what happens to the current? [Extract] >In addition, there might be eddy currents all over the place, especially >if it is AC or (worse) lightning, which is why you would probably get >electrocuted no matter where you were in the water. >-Mark Hmmm --- if a person is immersed in the water, why would they be electrocuted at all? If they were between the wire and the point of greatest ground potential, like a metal drain, I could see it (but wouldn't the current tend to flow AROUND the body, through the water which has less resistance than the body [considering skin resistance]). If they were in the pool, at another spot, why would there be any potential across their body at all? They wouldn't have any current flow through their body in this case, would they? Will