Sunday, March 8, 2009

Storing Electric Curents

While attempting to study for an exam that I have tomorrow in one of my classes I got a bit distracted. I started investigating capacitance, which is the ability of storing electric charge. It occurred to be that I should try and experiment with it so that I could measure the strength of the current. I started by shocking myself so that I could get the measurement. After the shock I recorded my estimation of the degree of pain that had just happened during the shock. When I shocked myself the first time I was doubtful about doing it again, but I was determined to investigate and experiment with it further. About a century after I preformed these experiments they will be published and then rediscovered by Maxwell in 1879.

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