The Sex Life of an Electron
The Sex Life of an Electron
| One night when his charge was pretty high, Micro Henry decided to try to get a cute little coil to let him discharge. He picked up Millie Amp and took her for a ride on his Mega cycle. They rode across the Wheatstone bridge, around by the sine wave, and stopped in a magnetic field by a flowing current. |
(Micro) Henry: Einheit der Induktivität
coil: Spule Millie Amp: Milliampere Mega Cycle(s per second): Megahertz bridge: Brückenschaltung current: Strom |
| Micro Henry, attracted by Millie's characteristic curves, soon had her resistance at a minimum and his field was fully excited. He laid her on the ground potential, raised her frequency, lowered her capacitance and pulled out his high voltage probe. He inserted his probe into her test socket using Maxwell's Corkscrew Rule, and began to short circuit her shunt. |
characteristic curve: Kennlinie
probe: Tastkopf Maxwell's Corkscrew Rule: Dreifingerregel (des Elektromagnetismus) to short circuit: kurzschließen shunt: Parallelwiderstand |
| Fully excited, Millie Amp exclaimed, "Mho, mho, mho, Give Me mho!" With his tube operating at its maximum peak current and her coil vibrating from the current flow, she soon reached her maximum peak potential. The excess current flow had gotten her coil hot and Micro Henry started rapidly discharging and soon had drained off every last electron. |
mho: veraltete US-Einheit des Leitwertes (SI-Einheit:
tube: Röhre |
| They fluxed all night trying various connections and sockets, until Micro Henry's bar magnet turned to soft iron, and had lost all of its field strength. Afterwards, Millie Amp tried self induction and damaged her solenoid. With his batteries fully discharged, Micro Henry was unable to further excite his generator, so they ended it all by reversing polarities and blowing each other's fuses. |
flux: Flußmittel
solenoid: Zugmagnet, Saugspule to blow a fuse: eine Sicherung 'raushauen |
