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# my mate was on about this the other day
right hand for motors

left hand for generators
(I helped save b3ta! Winthorpe Sim-Sala-Bim, Sun 6 Jul 2008, 0:44, archived)
# other way round isn't it?
(I helped save b3ta! parttimedogfish is a Born-Again Reincarnationist, Sun 6 Jul 2008, 0:49, archived)
# It's easier to think of left hand for the force on electrons
right hand for conventional current. I can't actually remember what is supposed to be used for "generators" and "motors"
(k3b/-\b Peace man., Sun 6 Jul 2008, 0:52, archived)
# yes
yes it is *just checked wiki*

(I helped save b3ta! Winthorpe Sim-Sala-Bim, Sun 6 Jul 2008, 0:56, archived)
# I have an idea!
Celebrities teach physics! but by accident... maybe we can show the 2 slits experiment by firing a politician at 2 narrow slits at an appreciable fraction of the speed of light
(sleipnir, Sun 6 Jul 2008, 1:09, archived)
# that will lead to: 2 slits experiment and a photo of kim jeong ill
and cries of lacisim.
(k3b/-\b Peace man., Sun 6 Jul 2008, 1:10, archived)
# Hans Brix? Oh no! Oh, herro. Great to see you again, Hans!
(I helped save b3ta! Winthorpe Sim-Sala-Bim, Sun 6 Jul 2008, 1:17, archived)
# hahah
(k3b/-\b Peace man., Sun 6 Jul 2008, 1:21, archived)
# Who caw me shrinty
(Doucement do it slowly..., Sun 6 Jul 2008, 1:30, archived)
# Experimenting with 2 slits...
That sounds like my kind of fun
*guffaws*
(I helped save b3ta! Tangy bzzzzzzzzt, Sun 6 Jul 2008, 1:17, archived)
# that too
(k3b/-\b Peace man., Sun 6 Jul 2008, 1:21, archived)
# i had
a physics teacher who could form his hand for the right hand rule but not the left. He had to use his other hand to put his fingers in position. There was nothing wrong with his hand, he was just really mal-coordinated. We mocked him for it.
(sleipnir, Sun 6 Jul 2008, 0:52, archived)
# HAHAHAHA
(k3b/-\b Peace man., Sun 6 Jul 2008, 0:52, archived)
# he was the worst practical physist ever...
managed to break not one but three of those vacuum flasks with the anode and cathode in so can show a circle of luminous electrons (can't remember the experiment name now, or why we did it).
he did it by mis-reading the voltage levels and putting the decimal point in the wrong place.... there was a nice arc and not much afterwards.....
(sleipnir, Sun 6 Jul 2008, 0:59, archived)
# aaah the theorist that tried to experiment
tis probably Thompson's charge to mass ratio experiment. The only thing I managed to break in a physics experiment was a coke bottle...
(k3b/-\b Peace man., Sun 6 Jul 2008, 1:02, archived)
# the guy was a liability
Managed to electrocute me several times with one of the those step up/down transformers... massive voltage nearly no current, accidentally touches me... ouch.

(sleipnir, Sun 6 Jul 2008, 1:04, archived)
# jeremy beadle?
(I helped save b3ta! Winthorpe Sim-Sala-Bim, Sun 6 Jul 2008, 0:57, archived)
# ..?
(sleipnir, Sun 6 Jul 2008, 1:01, archived)
# haha
(I helped save b3ta! Winthorpe Sim-Sala-Bim, Sun 6 Jul 2008, 1:02, archived)
# !
My physics teacher was scared of the Van der Graaf generator! Never used to touch the thing.
(I helped save b3ta! Tangy bzzzzzzzzt, Sun 6 Jul 2008, 1:00, archived)
# what a pussy!
the Whimshurst machine worries me but only because I've copped a few shocks off it. I also got lucky with a live DC supply once, makes me think I should check whether they are live or not.
(k3b/-\b Peace man., Sun 6 Jul 2008, 1:04, archived)