Re: Electric shocks off PowerBook

Rolleston <Nemo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Richard Tobin) writes:
In article <4env6pF1fu0q4U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Bruce Horrocks <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Electrons do not return via the earth path. To be pedantic, the
electrons don't really travel anywhere.

They travel a small fraction of a millimetre back and forth along the
wire. Which is pretty exciting by electron standards.

For alternating current?

Yes. For DC there is a constant drift velocity, but again it's very
slow; fractions of a mm per second (though it varies with current and
conductor properties).


Tim
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