One atom bumps into another atom.

"Hey! you stole one of my electrons"

"Are you sure"

"I'm positive!"

"Meindert Sprang" wrote in message

And if you still believe in electron inertia, I advise you to go and read
a
book about basic electric laws.

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Meindert Sprang wrote:
"Vito" wrote in message
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Del Cecchi wrote:

"Vito" wrote
Yes but Meindert old bean, if electrons didn't have inertia resonant
circuits wouldn't resonate.

Is this a feeble attempt at humor, or are you an idiot?

Neither one. Do you doubt that electrons have mass and therefore
inertia? If they did not, then current would stop at once when the coil
unsaturated. But it does not.

Sorry to say Vito, but that is completely nonsense. The reason current keeps
folwing for a while is magnetism. Current flowing through a wire creates a
magnetic field around the wire. Also, a changing magnetic field induces
current in a wire. What happens when you open the contact is this: the
current stops flowing, the existing static field collapses and is therefore
changing. And the field change induces a current in the wire in the opposite
direction. In a straight wire this effect is hardly noticable but coiled up,
the field around the wire concentrates and the effect gets bigger.

And if you still believe in electron inertia, I advise you to go and read a
book about basic electric laws.


Electrons have mass, ergo, they have inertia. Not much it's true, but
it's there.

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Meindert Sprang wrote:

Sorry to say Vito, but that is completely nonsense. The reason current keeps
folwing for a while is magnetism. Current flowing through a wire creates a
magnetic field around the wire. Also, a changing magnetic field induces
current in a wire. What happens when you open the contact is this: the
current stops flowing, the existing static field collapses and is therefore
changing. And the field change induces a current in the wire in the opposite
direction.

But current continues to flow even after the magnetic field has
collapsed. You can prove that with the right instruments.


And if you still believe in electron inertia, I advise you to go and read a
book about basic electric laws.

I did, at Bell Labs - you know the folks who invented transistors, et
cetera. Electrons have mass everything with mass has inertia. Look it up
in any basic physics book, or better yet memorize
http://www.newtonphysics.on.ca/EINSTEIN/Appendix1.html. Exam next
Thursday (c:

"Vito" wrote in message
...
Del Cecchi wrote:

"Vito" wrote
Yes but Meindert old bean, if electrons didn't have inertia resonant
circuits wouldn't resonate.

Is this a feeble attempt at humor, or are you an idiot?

Neither one. Do you doubt that electrons have mass and therefore
inertia? If they did not, then current would stop at once when the coil
unsaturated. But it does not. The little buggers keep going til they've
charged the capacitor (parasitic in this case but still real). Then
(Bugle sounds retreat) they head the other way re energizing the coil
.... etc. .... creating a damped AC wave.

Sometimes hard to tell on the net.

Yes indeed.
Next you will be telling me that you think the electrons are shooting
through the wire so fast that they just keep going and end up in a pile on
the other end, until they shoot back the other way. Snort, giggle, choke.

Yes the electrons have mass. It has nothing to do with how they behave in
electric circuits.