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

[Frederick Sparber]

I use this Caltech Applet to determine that a charge on an outer surface of
a zero net charge
device can be acted on by another charge:

http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~phys1/java/phys1/EField/EField.html

I uncheck all but the field lines and use the slider to put a plus or minus
charge surrounded by enough smaller charges to equal it. Then put
rows of like or unlike charges below to represent the earths
excess negative charge and above to represent the enormous positive charge
of the
upper atmosphere extending out into outer space.

Fred


On 8/13/07, Frederick Sparber <fsparber at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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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