what speed does electrcity travel at down wires?

[neocon]

what speed does electrcity travel at down wires?

can they type of wire affect how fast it travels?

 

[hardc0re_tid]

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=speed+of+electric&meta=

google has the answers ye seek

 

[Burnsy2023]

Lets just say the speed of light for saving us doing loads of complicated math

Yes they type of wire can affect it, but not something that's ever going to be an issue in real life

Burnsy

 

[Glaucus]

The electrons travel very slowly. However due to it being one constant chain. You get an almost instant flow to the source. Making it like light speed. But not.

 

[Burnsy2023]

The electrons travel very slowly. However due to it being one constant chain. You get an almost instant flow to the source. Making it like light speed. But not.

Energy flows fast, yet an electric current is a very slow flow.

Indeed

Burnsy

 

[georges]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_electricity

 

[Aero]

The electrons travel very slowly. However due to it being one constant chain. You get an almost instant flow to the source. Making it like light speed. But not.

Acids right, imagine a load of golf balls all lined up in a tube filling the whole of it. If you push another golf ball in the one at the other end will fall out at the same time. They individually don't move far/fast but the effect is pretty much instant.

Aero

 

[Vonhelmet]

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[D.P.]

Acids right, imagine a load of golf balls all lined up in a tube filling the whole of it. If you push another golf ball in the one at the other end will fall out at the same time. They individually don't move far/fast but the effect is pretty much instant.

Aero

Its misleading to call it instant though. It certinaly doesn'tbreak the speed of light.

 

[Azagoth]

If you place a 747 on a large treadmill........................................

I'll quietly leave now.

 

[georges]

You better leave..


+delete?

 

[Ben M]

what speed does google work at?

 

[neocon]

Acids right, imagine a load of golf balls all lined up in a tube filling the whole of it. If you push another golf ball in the one at the other end will fall out at the same time. They individually don't move far/fast but the effect is pretty much instant.

Aero

thats a nice analogy

 

[Aero]

Its misleading to call it instant though. It certinaly doesn'tbreak the speed of light.

I wasn't saying it was instant I just couldn't think of a word to describe it other than fast so I chose pretty much instantly

Aero

 

[Azza]

what speed does electrcity travel at down wires?

can they type of wire affect how fast it travels?

You never did GSCE Physics then?

 

[SexyGreyFox]

It travels at the same speed it takes to cut a sandwich in half.

 

[Dave M]

You never did GSCE Physics then?

Never covered that until A Level, was 15 years ago though, guess things change.

If I remember correctly it's something like 2m/s.

 

[theo]

I never covered it in gcse either, only a level which was about a year ago now.

My teacher said the electrons travel at a silly slow speed of something like 6mm per hour i think, bet on it being wrong though

edit: The wiki article corrects it by saying it's in the reigon of mm per second, are you sure the op isn't not talking about data being sent down wires though... which that same wiki article also explains i love wikipedia

 

[neocon]

i did a-level physics and got a 'b'

i was sure it was the speed of light (approx)

 

[Azza]

Never covered that until A Level, was 15 years ago though, guess things change.

If I remember correctly it's something like 2m/s.

Wasnt sure if it was GCSE or A-Levels.


I canny remember anything.