To: Southack
In my classes, this old "effect" was called the right-hand rule. Hardly new...
The right-hand rule deals with an electric current. The news above deals with an electrostatic charge.
The right-hand rule for force on a conductor can be used to determine the direction of the force experienced on the conductor. If the right thumb points in the direction of the current in the conductor and the fingers of the right hand point in the direction of the external magnetic field, then the force on the conductor is directed outward from the palm of the right hand.
18 posted on
04/03/2003 4:47:15 PM PST by
aruanan
To: aruanan
"When a DC voltage was applied to the spheres they began to rotate until the stiffness of the suspending wires prevented further rotation."
20 posted on
04/03/2003 5:18:28 PM PST by
Southack
(Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: aruanan
"The right-hand rule deals with an electric current. The news above deals with an electrostatic charge."
Silly me, I always thought that DC (as in the "DC Voltage" applied to the spheres in this experiment) stood for Direct Current...
< /SARCASM >
21 posted on
04/03/2003 5:20:48 PM PST by
Southack
(Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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