Physics riddle??
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x2Originally posted by ditzy:I wasted my time reading 2 fcuking pages.
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Eh.. That sux
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I have no idea why there should be ferrets involved T.T
why u so violent against me ?
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lan jiao phyisc law. water reduce your resist to electric. the man sweat till wet wet stil dun got electric shock. u go make yourself wet wet then touch your home circuit switch see will nothing happen. got all your pyhsic wrong.
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I still like the bcos electricity cannot pass through a bad conductor answer leh.
Can someone move this to jokes and humour and force TS treat this as answer?
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after you mentioned psychology I knew the answer had something to do with sweat, but then sweat or not in real life you cant possibly survive an electric chair.
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This is such an old question that is all over.... I'm really surprised so many people don't know about it.
Although the physics of it is slightly flawed. -
x2. Unless the bus conductor is really sweating..Originally posted by the.owl:after you mentioned psychology I knew the answer had something to do with sweat, but then sweat or not in real life you cant possibly survive an electric chair. -
x2.Originally posted by Xephone_xenon:I still like the bcos electricity cannot pass through a bad conductor answer leh.
Can someone move this to jokes and humour and force TS treat this as answer?
I still prefer the 'good conductor' and 'bad conductor' answer as well.
In fact, I'm totally unconvinced of the 'sweat' answer... if anything, inmates sentenced to death on the electric chair will have their heads shaved and brine wiped onto their bald heads to better aid in conduction of electric current to the brain.
And even if his sweat was really that profuse, the sweat would still have to originate from the sweat glands in the skin. In the end, some current would still be conducted into the skin.
And on a final note, even if all the current were to travel on his skin surface, his entire body would still be burnt due to the large amount of sweat. Mind you, burns on more than 20% of body surface is already considered a serious injury. -
i am not answering the riddle but i thought bus conductor checks bus tickets only...only the bus driver can stop the bus?
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Originally posted by huiz:i am not answering the riddle but i thought bus conductor checks bus tickets only...only the bus driver can stop the bus?
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After reading through the 1 and 1/2 pages i feel like posting "Fark you just post the answer la cb" then i saw the answer... Just in time...
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When ur hand is wet and u touches the switch, u are in a lower resistance than the circuit, hence u short circuited the circuit, causing u to be electrocuted.Originally posted by Rika Ishikawa:lan jiao phyisc law. water reduce your resist to electric. the man sweat till wet wet stil dun got electric shock. u go make yourself wet wet then touch your home circuit switch see will nothing happen. got all your pyhsic wrong.
(human r 70% water inside their body)
In the example case, the water film short circuited his body.....
The physics is not violated here....u are giving a wrong example to this case...
Owl is right....in real life the man would have been killed....
But this is a pretty long ago question that try to use similar concept as wet, drenched tree being unharm when struck by lightning, hence not really going to happen in reality.
However, this is the most sensible and scientific answer..
Yes the person may get burn in real life case even if he escape death.
A man in US once escape death the same way, he is wet thru out due to rain but alive because of the water film....but he also suffer burns over his skins....
Again, this question is a little ad-hoc and not lightly to happen in real life... but the answer makes perfect sense to the case IF the man is not killed . -
That is very right in real case.Originally posted by the.owl:after you mentioned psychology I knew the answer had something to do with sweat, but then sweat or not in real life you cant possibly survive an electric chair. -
Yes this is a very old question...Originally posted by eagle:This is such an old question that is all over.... I'm really surprised so many people don't know about it.
Although the physics of it is slightly flawed. -
Haha...i hate ferrets...they are so fury and they bite my hand once when I tried feeding them...Originally posted by Ferret:I have no idea why there should be ferrets involved T.T
why u so violent against me ? -
in actual fact, even if such stuff happen, the guy would still sweat on the third time he sat on the electrical chair.
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the movement of electrons in the conductor produce the pontential difference??
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Why no one prefer my answer, which sounds more logical in a way.Originally posted by Eiizumi:Hahaha I know liao.
When the first 2 situation, he was not "conducting" (both in his job and electricity).
But the third, he's "conducting", so he also conduct electricity. Hence mati! -
wasted my time..
then electric chair useless liao la..
every1 sit on chair sure sweat like mad..
wat a noob ans.