Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site convexs Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!convex!convexs!ayers From: ayers@convexs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sci Subject: Re: Question about Electricity Message-ID: <25500006@convexs> Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 16:10:00 EST Article-I.D.: convexs.25500006 Posted: Tue Oct 29 16:10:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 08:10:34 EST References: <621@hlwpc.UUCP> Lines: 27 Nf-ID: #R:hlwpc.UUCP:-62100:convexs:25500006:000:772 Nf-From: convexs.UUCP!ayers Oct 29 15:10:00 1985 >A question came up over the weekend about electricity. >If you put a live electrical wire into a large >swimming pool, what happens to the current? >Does it flow in a localize region around the >wire? Does it distribute evenly over the >volume of the pool? Does it peter out slowly >over distance from the wires, due to >the resistance of the water? it just drips off the end of the wire and collects in a pile at the lowest point of the pool... So come and walk awhile with me and share The twisting trails and wondrous worlds I've known. But this bridge will only take you halfway there-- The last few steps you'll have to take alone.(EE bygum 'e's a bad 'un) Dangermoose (& blues, II)