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02/04/1998




                                                  The Sex Life of an Electron

One night when his charge was pretty light, Micro Farad thought he would
get a cute little coil to let him discharge. He picked up Milli Amp and
took her for a ride on his mega cycle. They rode to whetstone bridge on the
crest of a wave and stopped in a magnetic field by a flowing current.

Micro Farad played with Milli Amp's characteristic curves. He soon had her
resistance down to a minimum and his field fully excited. He laid her on
the ground tickled her frequency and lowered her capacity. Pulling out his
H.T. probe, he inserted it into her female socket connecting them in
parallel and began to short circuit her shunt. Fully excited, Milli Amp
cried ohm, ohm, ohm. With his tube operating at maximum potential and her
coil receiving the maximum current flow she soon reached her peak. The
excess charge drained away every electron.

They flowed all night trying various sockets and connections until his bar
magnet had lost its field strength. Milli Amp then tried self inductance
but damaged her solenoid.

With his battery fully discharged, Micro Farad was unable to excite his
generator so they finished up reversing their poles and blowing their
fuses.

George MacKinnon                             tznpx@yrsgonax.pbz
The LeftBank Operation, Inc.           http://www.leftbank.com
50 Grove St.
Somerville, MA 02144
V: 617-492-0020   x311             F: 617-625-8016

"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt." (anonymous)




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