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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.sci
Subject: Re: Question about Electricity
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Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 11:42:53 EST
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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