This blog was an assignment for my chemical engineering fluid mechanics course at Auburn University. The posts are about naturally occurring fluid mechanics phenomena that I noticed on a daily basis.
Friday, November 4, 2011
Electric Current
While hunting this afternoon I saw a large set of high voltage power lines. I became mindful that the mechanism that causes the flow of electrons (electricity) down the power lines can be described by fluid mechanics. The electricity flow is due to a gradient. The numerical value for the magnitude of this gradient is called electrical voltage. The higher the voltage, the higher the potential is for electric current.
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