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10-20-2009 08:05 PM |
Chestnuts roasting on an induction coil...
Quote:
Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch
(Post 404391)
Eva Silverstein and her boyfriend, a plasma physics teaching fellow, are sitting at a café. The building across the street is on fire. Two firefighters enter the building across the street. A short while later, the two firefighters exit the building, carrying a third man. The boyfriend shrugs and says, "The initial observation must have been flawed." He gets up to leave. She refuses, saying she will not leave until another man enters the building so it's empty.
They have a huge fight and break up. They die alone.
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Physics jokes don't have to have sad endings:
Title: A Sexual Encounter between a Capacitor and an Inductor
One evening, with his charge at full capacity, Micro Farad decided to get a cute coil to discharge him. He went to the Magnet Bar to pick up a chip called Millie Amp. He caught her out back trying self induction; fortunately, she had not damaged her solenoid. The two took off on his megacycle and rode across the Wheatstone Bridge into a magnetic field, next to a flowing current, to watch the sine waves.
Micro Farad was very much stimulated by Millie's characteristic curve. Being attractive himself, he soon had her field fully excited. He set her on the ground potential, raised his frequency, lowered her resistance, and pulled out his high voltage probe. When he inserted it in parallel, he short-circuited her shunt. Fully excited, Millie cried out, "ohm, ohm, give me mho". As he increased his tube to maximum output, her coil vibrated from the current flow. It did not take long for her shunt to reach maximum heat. Now with the excessive current shortening her shunt, Micro's capacity rapidly discharged – every electron was drained off. But that was not the end of it. Indeed, they fluxed all night, tried various connections and hookings until his bar magnet weakened, and he could no longer generate enough voltage to sustain his collapsing field. With his battery fully discharged, Micro was unable to excite his tickler, so they went home. A few weeks later, they were merged forever and oscillated happily ever after.
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