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)
To: Southack
Silly me, I always thought that DC (as in the "DC Voltage" applied to the spheres in this experiment) stood for Direct Current...
They used DC to charge the spheres. After they were charged, their charge was static. A static charge has no flow of current. The right-hand rule applies to a current flowing along a conductor.
26 posted on
04/03/2003 6:06:12 PM PST by
aruanan
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