smithj@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Jeremy Smith) (02/20/89)
The sex life of an electron
by
Eddy Currents
One night when his charge was high, Micro Farad decided to seek out a cute
coil to let him discharge.
He picked up Milli Amp and took her for a ride on his megacycle. They
rode across wheatstone bridge, down the lines of force, and stopped in a
magnetic field by a flowing current.
Micro Farad, attracted by Milli Amp's characteristics curves, soon had her
fully charged, her resistance at a minimum and her capacity at a maximum. He
laid her on the ground potential, raised her susceptibility and lowered her
reluctance.
He pulled out his voltage probe and inserted in her socket, connecting
them in parallel, and began short circuiting her resistance shunt. Fully
excited, Milli Amp mumbled, Ohm, Ohm, Ohm..."
With his tube operating at a maximum and her field vibrating with his
current flow, the mutual inductance caused her shunt to overheat and Micro
Farad was rapidly discharged.
They fluxed all night, trying various connections and sockets until his
magnet had a soft core and had lost all of its intensity.
Later, Milli tried self inductance and damaged her solenoids. With his
battery fully discharged, Micro Farad was unable to raise his field strength,
so they spent the rest of the night reversing polarity and blowing each other's
fuses.