How do you mean?
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asbestos@lemmy.world 1 day agoBut that won’t short circuit it is my point
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
A short circuit is when you provide a path for electricity to travel directly from A to B.
You can’t do this by touching the battery terminals because your dry skin won’t transmit the electicity. You’re just touching battery terminals.
If you hold a AA battery in between your finger and thumb, you’re also not short circuiting it. You’re just holding it by its terminals.
But if you hold an unfolded paperclip to both sides, you are shorting it.
As far as I know, there is not a large population using “short circuit” the way you were (just touching a battery terminals).
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No, there is absolutely current flowing when you touch both terminals, it’s just an incredibly tiny amount. You can do the math yourself and see, it’s a basic application of Ohms law. The formula is (I=V/R).
Yondoza@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Shorts are unintended low impedance paths.
it’s just an incredibly tiny amount Indicates you are not describing a short.
Sure, there is technically current flowing, but it is small enough to be considered an open circuit for engineering purposes. There is leakage current for every insulator, we don’t call it a short.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Cool, til. I guess it is semantic then wether a short is low-resistance or any connection.
Iirc, even the air has a resistance value, so that would imply that all batteries are shorted at all times which doesn’t seem useful for the English language.
tomiant@piefed.social 1 day ago
Guys, GUYS! Calm down, you are all a bunch of nerds.
credo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Okay, define nerd
tomiant@piefed.social 1 day ago
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