[NewCandle] NR attempt at Fred's battery anti-lifter

[Frederick Sparber]

Weight sequence:

Nick wrote;

"aluminum pan only - 4.26g
add paper towel square - 6.14g tot.
add salt water spot - 7.64g tot.
add penny to dry area - 10.62g tot.
move penny to wet area - 10.62g tot.
wait 1 minute - 10.62g tot.
penny to dry area - 10.61g tot.
penny to wet area - 10.61g tot.
penny dry - 10.61g
penny wet - 10.61g
penny dry - 10.61g
penny wet - 10.61g
penny dry - 10.61g
wait 1 minute - 10.60g
penny wet - 10.60
penny dry - 10.60"

What did you dry penny weigh alone, Nick.

I get 2+ grams tops for all pennies I've weighed. According to this you
might be
throwing the baby out with the bath water.

Contact potential through wet or dry paper should make the aluminum pan
positive
in which case the earth's megacoulomb "excess negative charge" 100 volt per
meter fair weather
field should make it weigh more. F = E*Q  at 0.5 grams  0.0049 newtons
Q = 0.000049 Coulombs

Since Q = CV at 0.1 volt contact potential capacitance C = Q/0.1 = 490
microfarads

Fred

http://www.micromagazine.com/archive/05/01/yang.html
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