ECE802 – Lec10 Note: the red color words or question marks are the words that I cannot recognized!!
The blue part is the repeat part in order to correct the lecture explanation mistakes.
[00:00~10:30] We have often talked about power supply which are the device which maintain a constant potential difference. Here we have a power supply, potential difference V. This is to be the plus side, and this is to be the minus side. I am going to connect this……I have a resistor here, R. And as a result of this, the current (I) will start to flow in this direction……this direction……this direction……this direction. So in the power supply, the current flows in this direction. So the resistance, the current flows in this direction. In what the direction is the electric field? Did electric field always runs from plus to the minus potential? So right here in this resistor, the electric field is in this direction. From plus, to minus! But inside the supply, it must also go from plus to minus. And so inside the supply, the electric field is in the direction that opposite the current. To some kind of pump mechanism, must force the current to go inside the supply against the electric field. A border does not all by itself move up to hill. And so something is needed to push it! Remember it’s the ventograph, we will bring charge onto the belt, and then we rotated the belt, and the belts forced the charge into the dump (電荷暫存的堆積處). It has to overcome the repelling force of the dump. So what have to be down? So the energy must come from somewhere. And in the case of the ventograph, it was clearly that the motor keeps the belts running. In the case of re-inverse, it was I (the machine user; here means Dr. Walter Lewin) to turn the crank. So I did work. In the case of common battery is the one that you buy in the store. It is the chemical energy that provides the energy. And I will discuss that now with you and demonstrate a particular kind of chemical energy, which is one whereby we have a zinc and a cooper plates in a solution. So we have here H2SO4, and we have here zinc plate, and we have here a cooper plate. This side will become positive, and this side will become negative. You will get a potential difference between these two plates. To understand that, it real takes quantitative mechanic. That goes beyond this course. But the potential difference that you get is normally something around 1 volt. The secrete really is not necessarily in the solution. Because if you take two conductors, two different conductors and you touch them metal to metal, there will also be a potential difference. So lets look this now in some more detail. We have here a pool barrier that the I can flow freely from one side to the other, and we connect them here to the resistor, and so the current is now flowing. The current is flowing in this direction through the resistor, from a plus side of the battery to the minus side. That means inside the battery current is flowing like this, and the electric field (E) here is in this direction, from plus to minus. But also inside the battery, the electric field must be from plus to minus. So you see it again as we saw here that the electric field is in the opposite direction of the current. You have here SO4 minus ions, (SO4– –), and you have copper plus ions, (Cu++), in this solution. And here you have zinc plus Zn++ and you have SO4– –. And as current starts to run, SO4– – ions which are now to the current carrier inside this battery is going form the right to the left. Now why were as SO4– – ions travel through the electric field that opposite them? That opposite their motion. And they do that because in doing so the engage in a chemical reaction which uses more energy then it cost to claim the electric hill. And why a current is flowing? Why the SO4– – is going from right to the left? You get fewer SO4– – ions here. This liquid here remains neutral, so Cu++ must be disappear. And it precipitates onto this copper bar. So its likes copper plate. On this side you get an increase of SO4– –, therefore you also must get in Zn++ because again this liquid remains neutral. And that means that some of the zinc is being dissolved. So you get increase in the concentration of the zinc. So the charge carrier inside this battery, the SO4– – ions travel through this barrier. They go from here to here. So they travel through the electric field that opposite that motion. And this happens at the expends of chemical energy. Now in the copper solution becomes very dilute. Because all the copper has been plated onto the copper. And when this becomes concentrated, the Zn++, then the battery been stopped. And now what you can do you can run the current in the opposite direction. So you can running current now in this direction. You can force a current to run with an external power supply and now the chemical reaction will reverse. So now copper will go back into the solution so it will dissolve. And now the zinc will be precipitate it onto the zinc. And so now if you do this long enough, you can run the battery again the way it is here. A car battery, is exactly this kind of battery except you have laid and ladoxide opposite side instead of zinc and copper, which also have sulfuric acid like you have here. And the Nickel-Cadmium battery is well known you can charge that, too. There is the one that regularly available in the stores. You can run your flash light with the Nickel-Cadmium batteries. The symbol for battery that we will be using in our circuits is this. This is the positive side and this is the negative side. This is the symbol that symbolize that we are dealing with a battery. For that this point be B and this point will be A, and here we have a resistor R. So we have a current going. The current is going in this direction, the current I. This could be a light bulb, could be your laptop, could be a hair dryer, whatever that is yours appliance. If this R is not there, that means that the resistance is infinitely large (¥), that means that the current that is running is zero. Then the voltage that we were measure over this battery which is VB – VA, for which I will simply write down Vb, that voltage we called curl ε. We stand with EMF, which is an Electric Motor Force. I will show you that later. If I put a resistance R in here, which is not infinitely large, then the current will start to flow. But now we should never forget, that between the point A and B invisible to the numan I, that there is always a internal resistance, which I called little r of i, (ri). And so if the current starts to flow, it goes not only through the capital R, but it also goes through to the little r. And so according the Ohm’s Law, the ε is now I, times the external resistance plus the internal one (R+ri). The voltage that you will measure between point B and A is now going to change. That voltage according to Ohm’s Law is I*R and so is also the (ε – I*ri). And you see it is a little bit lower then the ε. And the reason is this internal resistance here. If I short it out this battery, stupid thing to do but if I make R equal zero. So I take the battery and I just short it out, then the maximum current Imax that I can draw then. So R is now is zero. So you can see that the maximum I that you can get is ε divided by ri. And Vb, the voltage that you will measure now between point B and A goes to zero. [10:31~20:44] It doesn’t mean that there is no current running. But it means that between theses points, the potential difference goes down to zero. Shorting out the battery of course is not very smart thing to do. You can put batteries in series, and there by getting higher potential difference. This is the negative side, and this is the positive……I have an independent one negative…positive, and an independent one negative…positive, each one with an ε, and I can connected the positive side of one with the negative side of the other, just a conducting wire. And positive side of this with the negative side of the other. And now potential difference between these two points is now 3ε. Open circuit if I don’t draw any current. If I draw current, then of course I have to deal again with the internal resistance. I am going to built with you a copper-zinc battery of the kind that we just discussed. You see it here. Here is the copper sulfuric solution which is a H2SO4 and here are my plates, this is my zinc plate, and this is my copper plate. And you are going to see the voltage displays I think is over there. That is correct. There is no potential difference now because there are not in the place yet. So here comes my zinc, and here comes my copper. Then I put them go into the solution and you see about 1 volt. In general, these potential differences are of that order of 1 volt…….. 0.95v! So now I will do, I am going to create a double one. I have two independent batteries. I have here …… the one where I have copper and zinc, I have another one and I have a copper and zinc. And I am going to connect this one, and you will see now that ε will double. Are you ready for that? This is my second one is going to be completely independent. And here comes another two plates. Make sure that I have the copper and the zinc not confused. There you go! And now you should see twice the potential and you do see that. It is an open circuit. There is no current running. Well, there is a mi-nuclear small current running through the volt meter that you see. But that is so small and always to be ignored. You see you can double the ε. Now what I will do, so now I have about 2 volts between these two plates. Two batteries in series. I now have a little light bulb here. And I am going to turn on the light bulb. And now which you will see is that the voltage that you measure right here…..that’s all you can do! You can only measure the voltage at the plate of the battery. But now the voltage will drop because of the internal resistance of the battery. In addition you will see some light but that is really not my objective. For those of you who is sitting closed you can see this light bulb going to be lit. So I do this now. I can see the light bulb. A little bit of light and notice that the voltage goes down. And so this value that you measure now Vb is now lower then the 1.9 volts because of this term. You lose inside the battery through the internal resistance. You lose there potential difference. All right, so lets take this out because this produce a lot of smelly fumes. Ok! That’s fine! If the charge moves from point A to point B, and here the potential is VA, and here the potential is VB, and a charge dq moves. That’s suppose for simplicity that VB – VA ………. Oh……Lets make the VA larger then VB. That’s just a little easier to think in those terms. It is not necessary for it. So lets make VA larger then VB. So electric field from A to B. And I move charge from A to B then the electric field is doing work. And the work that electric field is doing dW is the charge (dq) times the potential difference which is (VA – VB). This work can be positive if the charge is positive. It could be negative if the charge is negative because we have assumed that this is positive in this case. I can do something that you shouldn’t tell your math teachers that physic is doing all the time. We divided by dt. And now we say………ah ha! What we have on the left side is now work for unit time. That’s power (P), joule per second. So this now is power. dq/dt is current, how many coulombs per second flow. So this is current I. And the potential difference I simply call, used that symbol V. So you see now here that the power delivered by a power supply is the current that is produced times the potential difference. And this is independent of Ohm’s Law. It always holds. If you also include Ohm’s Law if you can used it. Last time we discussed the limitation of the Ohm’s Law. But if you can used it, V = I*R. Then of course, you can also write down for the power that is P = I2*R. And it is also P = V2/R. Power is joules per second. But we write for that joules per second. We write for that watts……just the capital W, but its name after the physicist Watt. So we always express the power in turns of Watt. So suppose we have a resistance R and we run a current through it. This is the resistance and we run the current I through it. And let us take an example that the current I is 1 Amp here, and that resistance is 100W. Then the power which is dissipated in this resistor has to be provided by the battery. That power P is now 100W. I2*R, you want to use this. If it is 2A here and you don’t change your resistance, then it becomes 400W. It is I2*R. I doubles, the power will 4 times higher. There is an energy that dissipated in the form of heat. And if it gets hot enough, then maybe you can produce the light. That’s the idea behind the light bulb. The filament into in the turns in the incandesce light bulb becomes very high 2,500 degree of centigrade. Maybe even 3,000 degree. Not so high of course that the turns to melt. And so you began to see light. So for instance a 100 W light bulb,……… oh work from here! So if we have a 100W light bulb in your dormitory, and the voltage is 110v, you just plug into the wall, then the current that will run is about 0.9A here. P = V*I, this product must be 100W. And then the resistance that you have is about 120 W, V = I*R. So, even though it is quite hot of the light bulb, the amount of light that it produce is in general not more then 20% of this power. Not very an efficient thing as an incandesce light bulb.
[20:45~30:34] A fluorescent tube is much better. So if you have a 40W fluorescent tube, you gets much more light then you get out of 40V in incandesce bulb. Before we take the heaters that you have in your dormitories. Typically 2kW, but lets make it 2,200 W because that divided nicely. So the 110v. So then you will have 20A here. That is a lot of amps here. So, dormitory is very old, chance is that your fuse will go. 20A here is more than many houses can handle. But nowadays I think the most outlets are good for 25A is also. So But not so much more. And so now you have a resistor in your heater which is about 5.5W. Just to give you the feeling for some numbers. Now you won’t heat out of your heater. You want light out of your light bulb. So you want to keep the temperature of your heater modelness, not so high that you get a lot of light. If you make it 2,000 or 2,500 degrees, then you will get a lot of light out of your heater. And so suppose that half of that power will come out in turns of light. And you turn on your heater at night, will be have a thousand watts light bulb being in your dormitory. You don’t want that. So, how do you do? What do you do now? Well, you simply keep the temperature lower about maybe thousand degrees centigrade became to get it red hot. Very little light is produced. And how do you keep the temperature low? You could cool it with air. Some of these heaters have fens to cool them. Or you just make the resistance if you do both very large. Huge surface area of the resistance. Not small but large. And so now they have a large surface area so they can radiate their heat and so the temperature remains low. So if you look at your things that you have at home, you have light bulb, 40 to 200W; your toaster maybe 300W; your cooking plate and your heaters, something like 2kW; TV, few hundred watts; your electric tooth brush, probably only 4W, very modern-ness. Your own body produces about hundred watts heat. Of course that is energy. You have a very large surface area so you don’t get nearly as hot as hundred watts light bulb because your surface area is large. So you only have models around 98 degree Fahrenheit unless you are running a fever. So you don’t produce any light because you are not hot enough for that. So you produce an intro-act radiation. That’s very noticeable. You hold someone in your arms. The good feeling is you feel the body heat. That is the intro-act radiation. That radiate is about 100 joules per second, 100W. And the electric blanket is only 50W. So your partner is twice about effective as an electric blanket. Maybe also more fun. The power deliver by the battery is the current that the battery delivers times ε which is an EMF. And so when the current is running, it is I2 times the sum of the two resistances. The external one plus the internal one. It can never by pass that. The heat that is produced by the external one is I2 times R, but the heat that produced inside the battery is I2 times little r (ri). You can’t avoid that. And so if you make R = 0 by shorting out the battery, then you get a current which is the maximum current (Imax) that you can get, which is ε/ri. So to kill the capital R, is zero now. And so you get a power, which is the maximum power (Pmax), which is now ε2/ri. Imax2 times ri is the same thing. It is the maximum current (Imax2) times ri. And all of that comes out inside the battery. Nothing comes out outside. If you have a Ni-Cd durable battery (Nickel-Cadmium battery), the one we also familiar with. So then ε is about 9 volts, the EMF. The internal resistance of such a battery is about 2W. And so the maximum current that you can ever get out of a durable battery itself will be about 4.5A here. There is the Imax, will be about 4.5A here. And so the Vmax, will be about 40W. So if you take a Ni-Cd battery (Nickel-Cadmium battery), and you short it out, then the battery should get warm. Because all that heat, all that 40W is generated inside your battery. The value for Vb that you measured will gone down to zero. If you really could short it out with the resistor which has zero resistance. Now of course, it is pretty stupid thing to do to short out a battery, but it is not dangerous. 40W, think that is a little bit of warm. No big deal! So lets do it! So I have here the voltage that you can see that we measure from 9v, durable battery. I have the battery here, and you can read it here. I hope that is the decimal point there but it is about 9.6v. And now I am going to do something stupid but again…… is not dangerous. I am going to take out my car keys and I am going to short out the battery. The simply connect point A with point B. And so the voltage you are going to see is going maybe not go to zero exactly because my key may not be zero resistance but it goes very low. And what you can not experience is something that I can that this battery is getting hot. This 40W will be generated inside here. It is possible though when the battery gets hot that the internal resistance may even go up a little. Because remember that resistance goes up when the temperature goes up, in which case the power will go down. So it may not be the full 40W. But I can assure you that I can feel this things getting warm. So let me short it out now. I am doing it just now and you read the voltage. I can see the two here. Oh~~~ it always is not so easy to use a key to do that! Here! Is very low. Hey, look at that! It is about 10v and I feel this thing getting hot. It is really warm up now. And so I am ruining this battery. It is a terrible thing to do. Battery don’t like that. But when I take off the internal resistance, some of that may come back. They maybe permanent damage, you see its read is 8.5v (before this experience is 9.6v). So there is no way that you can stop a car with a 9v durable battery because you just can’t get the current that you need to start up the engine. You start the motor that you need few hound amps here. If you take a car battery, that is about 12v. It has a very low internal resistance, of about 1/50W. So that means the maximum current that you can draw if you were shorted circuit, will be something like 600A here. And so the maximum power (Pmax) if you were so stupid to short the circuit that will all be generated inside the battery will be something like 7kW. If you every work on your car, make sure that you never ever drop accidentally the range that you using onto your battery. Because if you did, then inside the battery about 6kW, 7,000 joules per second is going to be produced in terms of heat. And the sulfuric acid is going to boil, the case may melt and that’s no good. Not only is that stupid, but it’s also very dangerous. So lets do it! (student laughing!) I have here this battery and I have here the wrench. Just in case. I am going to short out that battery. And as I do that, you will clearly see that the battery doesn’t like it. I will be very careful not to hold on this wrench too long because it will weld onto it actually. Weld onto it and stay there. Because the current is so high. It can go up to 600A because it can weld onto it and then you can’t get it off anymore.
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In case that happened, I will walk out of here (student laughing!) and I advice you to do the same. Are you ready? Ok! I go now. You see, that is what happened! It is a very high current!! And when you do this too often to your battery, then they are not going to live very long. They don’t like it. But I were joking when you work on your car that you should avoid this because I have seen it happened that wrench actually weld onto the terminal. Electric company charges you for energy. They don’t care about the power how many joules you used per second but they care about how much energy you using. So they will charge you then for joules you think. That’s energy. How every if you look at your bill, You were been charged for kilo-watt-hours (kWh). A kilo is a thousand, and an hour is 36,000 seconds. So the unit of energy for which they charge you is this in joules (3,600kJ). Two thousand watts, cooking plate, you run for 2 hours that is 4kW an hour. They will probably charge you for 10 cents per kilo-watt a hour. For the same amount of money you could run a 100W light bill for 40 hours. Again, that will be the same 4kW a hour. Or you could brush your teeth with your electric tooth brush for about 1000 hours. Now I want to take a look with you at a network which consists of resistors and batteries. This is the kind of stuff that you see on the homework assignments, and perhaps…… on exams. So now we start out with a very modelest circuit. Here we have a resistor R1, here we have a resistor R2, and here R3, and then we put a battery in here, and we put a plus sign say on the left, plus side and minus side, and let the potential difference of this one is V2. It is real the EMF (ε). But I will ignore any kind of internal resistance of the battery. It is completely negligible in this problem. And here I put also a battery, and this be the negative side and this be the positive side, and let the potential difference be V1. And so imaging you know V1, V2, R1, R2, and R3. But what I am going to ask you is what is I1, what is I2, and what is I3. I want the magnitude and I want the direction. When you look at this, it by all means is obvious that the current in this resistor will be to the right or to the left. That is by all means obvious. Depends on the values of V1 and V2 and on the resisrtors. The basic ideas behind solving this problem are the keys what we called Kirchhoff’s Rules. Kirchhoff’s first rule is that the closed loop integral over closed loop of E×dl is zero, which we seen that before. I don’t know why Kirchhoff get a credit for this. It is always is the case when we dealing with conservative field. We start at the particular point, you go around E×dl, you back the same potential you were before, so it must be zero. As long as you deal with a conservative field. But that is the first rule. And you can do this closed loop anywhere. You can even do it here, it still be zero. You can do it here, also zero. You can do it there. No matter where you do it that closed loop integral must be zero. Now there is a second key of Kirchhoff’s rule. And that is what we called Charge Conservation. If there is a static situation, then independent of which junction you go to, the current that flows in must flows out. Can’t have a pirate of charge. That’s the second rule. And I gave you a problem 3-7 to work out. And you can look into your book how that is done. However, I am going to work on this with in a slidely different way then the book is doing it, which I persuade it likes better. But it may confuse you. So I warm you in advance. You may not want to use my method at all. What I do is the following. I said ok, I assume that there is a closed loop current here I1, and that is a closed loop current here I2. Weather I make them clockwise or counterclockwise, not important. I could have chosen one clockwise, the other counterclockwise. Not important. However once I choose the direction, it has a consequence as you will see. And that’s all that running. One current likes this, and one current independently like that. If I assume that then I automatically……automatically I am obeying the second rule because the current that goes around is charge conservation, right? There is no charge palling out. So the second rule of Kirchhoff is really obeyed. So now I go to the first one, and I can start now at any point in that circuit and go around. I can go around clockwise, I can go around counterclockwise. There makes no difference as long as I return to the same point that integral E×dl must be zero. I am returning the same potential. What is the integral of E×dl in going from point 1 to point 2. Well, that is the potential difference between point 1 (V1) and point 2 (V2). And so let us start here and let it goes around. And we have to adopt the certain convention mainly if you go up potential and when you go down the potential. Again, you are free to choose the sign convention. But I will say when I go up potential, I give that the plus sign, and when I go down in potential, I give that the minus sign. So I start here. I could have started there……I could have started there……make no difference. As long as I don’t start here that make no sense. So I start it here and I go around like this. So right here, I go down in the potential V1, so I get –V1. Now I go with current I1 in the direction from left to right. So that means that the potential here must be higher then there. V = I*R. Potential here must be higher then there. So I go down in potential so I get –I1*R1. Now I go through R3. This current I1 is going down. And this has a higher potential then here so I go down in potential so I get –I1*R3. But, I have independently a current I2 which is now coming toward to me when I go down. And so if it comes toward me, that current will give me increasing potential. This will have has a higher potential then this. For this current to do this. So now I climb up the potential hill. So I get now plus I2*R3. Oh~o~~ look what I did, I wrote down capital R. Clearly I meant R1. There is no capital R in the whole problem. Sorry for that! You should read this as –I1*R1. I am back where I was because this wire has no resistance. So I am back where I was. So this is zero. One equation with two unknowns, I1 and I2. So now lets go around this one. We can go clockwise, we can go counterclockwise makes no difference. Lets start here. And I go in this direction once arou [40:17~53:36] So now I go through R3 and this current I2 is running this direction, so I go down the potential. So I get minus I2*R3. But current I1 is coming toward to me. If I am going this direction, I1 is coming toward to me, so I climb up the potential hill. So I got +I1*R3. Now I go through R2 with this direction, current I2 is also in this direction. And so this must have a higher potential then this. So I go down hill the potential so –I2*R2. I come down here ……… ah~~ here is a battery and it goes up the potential so I get plus V2, that is zero. Two equations with two unknowns. I can solve for I1 and I can solve for I2. I1 and I2 pop out. Let us assume I1 is positive. I find positive value, it means it is really in this direction. Lets suppose I1 is negative. I find –3A here. Well, that means I1 is in this direction. No big deal. And so whole operation is sign sensitive. And the same as through here. If I2 is positive, it means is in this direction. If I2 is negative, then it is in that direction. How about I3 now? Well, let it assume that I1 is +3A here. And that you find that I2 is +1A here. That’s possible, right? You have two equations. Two unknowns. These are the answers. So 3A here goes like this, shiii~~ down, and 1A here comes up. Well, it is clear then that I3 is 3 – 1 is +2A. Another way of looking at it is 3A here is coming in juncture. I2 is 1A here so 1A here goes through, so 2A must go down. That’s really Kirchhoff’s second rule. If I1 were +1A here, and I2 also +1A here, then I3 will be zero. No current will flow through I3, but my math method will still work. I find 1A here going down and 1A here going up, so there is no current going through R3. There is only current going in this direction, 1A here. And ……… oh~o~~ look what I did, I wrote down I1*R. There is no capital R in the whole problem. I clear meant I1*R1. So read –I1*R1. Sorry for that! I am back where I was because this wire has no resistance. So I am back where I am, so this is zero. One equation with two unknowns, I1 and I2. So now lets go around this one. We can go clockwise, we can go counterclockwise makes no difference. Lets start here. And I go in this direction once around. So now I go through R3 and this current I2 is running in this direction, so I go down the potential. So I get minus I2*R3. But current I1 is coming toward to me. If I am going this direction, I1 is coming toward to me, so I climb up the potential hill. So I got +I1*R3. Now I go through R2 with this direction, current I2 is also in this direction. And so this must have a higher potential then this. So I go down hill the potential so –I2*R2. I come down here ……… ah~~ here is a battery and it goes up the potential so I got +V2, that is zero. Two equations with two unknowns. I can solve for I1 and I can solve for I2. I1 and I2 pop out. Lets us assume that I1 is positive. I find the positive value. It means it is really in this direction. Let us suppose I1 is negative. I find –3A here. Well, that means I1 is in this direction. No big deal. And so the whole operation is sign sensitive. And the same as through here. If I2 is positive, it means is in this direction. If I2 is negative, then it is in that direction. How about I3 now? Well, let us assume that I1 is +3A here. And that you find that I2 is +1A here. That’s possible, right? You have two equations, two unknowns. These are the answers. So 3A here goes like this, shiii~~ down, and 1A here comes up. Well, it is clear then that I3 is 3 – 1 is +2A. Another way of looking at it is 3A here is coming in this juncture. I2 is 1A here so 1A here go through, so 2A must go down. That’s really Kirchhoff’s second rule. If I1 were +1A here, and I2 will also +1A here, then I3 will be zero. No current will flow through I3, but my math method will still work. I find 1A here going down and 1A here going up, so there is no current going through R3. There is only current going in this direction, 1A here. And so, you have to recognize then that I3 is I1 – I2, which is really application then of the key hold, second rule. I like this idea of the closed loop current. I know some of you don’t like it, that’s fine. The reason why I like it is I always end up in this case with two equations with two unknowns. The one I solve the two, and then the third one I always come up with a nature way by just thinking ……oh~~ one current goes in this direction and the other goes in that direction. But if you prefer the method that the book were presented to you, you get three equations with three unknowns, you get I1, I2, and I3. Right at the start you get an I3. You see, I don’t even start up with I3. It is not there. It comes later. So the choice is yours. Now I want to entertain you for the last 6 minutes with something amazing. Something that is truly amazing. And there is a 4 batteries that is my following. And the battery is right here on my left, on your right. Here is the battery that produce the enormously potential difference. 1020 kV. You see as the conpatety key here the ah………transparency. You have a bucket of water put on the top and you have glass. The bucket of water is hiding behind here. Not that because we hide it from you but that is the best place to be. And you see plastic two tubes coming down and the water can run out of the right and can run out of the left. With one out here there is a pet’s can, no top and no bottom, and you can see these pet’s cans here, completely open, the letter A. And there is another pet’s can on the right, there is a letter B. It is a conducting can. It is also an conducting can. And this water runs into another conducting trash can and this water also runs into another conducting trash can. Now comes the key point. That this conductor here A, is connected through a conducting wire with C. And the conductor B, the pet’s can is conducting with a wire to this trash can D. Let the water runs for a while. And you will see between these two points here, sparks. Even on the points are far apart, lets say 5mm. When you are talking about at least potential difference of something like 15,000 volts. You will see this sparks. You wait, you see another sparks. And you wait, you see another sparks. So this is the power supply. And there must be energy coming from somewhere. And so problem 4-1 which you haven’t seen yet on the 4th assignment is asking you how this work. I will demonstrate it today and I will come back with it later. The way it works is quite settle but I want you to think about it. It is a remarkable battery. A remarkable power supply. As the water start running, I want to draw your attention to the effect, that you can almost anticipate when the sparks occurres. Because the water at the very last is beginning to spread. It doesn’t come out anymore. Just like a narrow cylinder but it begins to spread. And then comes with this spark and then goes back to running normally and then slowly in time it will spread and that comes to the sparks. So lets us get it going. I have some light here. Marcos and Bill spend a lot of time get this going. Marcos, do I have the light the way you want it? You are happy with that! There you see the two balls which are really here. And lets first look at this spark. So I will start the water running now. Just to be patient to a little bit and lets see where it comes with the spark. AH! Did you see one? Did you see the spark? Oh~ you weren’t looking! Man! I am paying for this!! Look at the …… look at the two balls. Give it some time again. I have to charge it up. Oh~ I can really anticipate it. It is coming up!! It’s Coming up!! Yar! Did you see it? 1015kV. Lets give it a little bit more time and then we will take a look at the water flow, which I can see is closed. We can see the water flow. Look at it again,………ah~~~ it is coming up!! OH! Did you see it? I can see it coming up!! I can make you listen by having my microphone near the water and you can hear this water running. It is really sound to all of us. And now the sound changes. You hear change? …………..AND THERE IS A SPARK! Once more! It’s running……….ready…………coming up………YAR! (student laughing) Amazing, isn’t it? I can make you see this water. Just stay there. We have 1.5 min left. So now you can see the water. Do you happy with the light, Marcos? You can improve on it!! So, look at the water. It was just spreading already. You can’t see this spark and water at the same time. See the water is running now normally. It is going to spread slowly……I will tell you when I see the spark here but it’s already………I can almost predict one when it happens. The water is spreading now,……….coming up shortly………Yar! I saw the spark (student laughing) and you immediately see water goes like this. I warm you to think about it and explain this. This is one of the most remarkable things I have ever seen in my life.
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