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Chemistry / Re: Can I make an electrolysis device with a transformer?
« on: 17/07/2012 18:55:23 »
What do you plan to do with the potassium chlorate?
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There isn't a low-frequency cutoff for photons.
but none migrate to Europe
Also, even if the water is a ten fold better conductor that would mean the fish got an eleventh of a thunderbolt.
Hummingbirds are native to the Americas and are not a migratory bird.
It's the light quanta that are discrete, meaning that they have different 'jumps' of energy levels, but you can pack them as tight as you like in a beam. And if described as waves? I don't know? The main stream definition of a wave is dependent on what time is seen as, and if you think that time is a continuous process without 'breaks' then a wave should be one too. Weird stuff, and once again the particle/wave duality.
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Or am I wrong there?
Is light discrete when it comes to light quanta? And does discrete mean that they have different defined energies, and does it then mean that there is 'jumps' between those energy levels? I'm not sure?
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No, it should be correct. A light quanta is a discrete 'particle', but does it answer if there is jumps between their energy levels, or if you could imagine that there is a infinite procession of energy levels creating a 'smooth' procession?
Eh, it can't be smooth
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Ah well.
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Or maybe it can?
It all depends on how you think of it, doesn't it?
Assume you superimpose photons, do the energy then jump in steps or do they gradually, ever so smoothly, ahem, increase their energy?
How about a laser?
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It would still be 'breaks' involved, wouldn't it? But how tight would it be between them? Plank scale?
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I better stop, I'm getting myself confused here
Geezer
Although we do not think of radio frequency emissions as photons they must be although of much lower energy than the 1 to 2 ev of visable light IMHO the smallest increment of photon energy must be the 6.63x10-34 Joule-sec of Planck's constant.
Could the most high resolution spectrum analyser display this ? , not a hope but I wonder if we examined the the electromagnetic radiation of a rotating galaxy the discrete nature of the energy levels might be resolvable.
PS Geezer, I believe that the energy levels of light photons are quantized but the steps are to small to be measured
But I'm still wondering how many frequencies and wavelengths one can get,
Many things are possible once you have an oscillator or some kind of switching but it is hard to devise a completely static way to do it , perhaps you could charge up a capaitor with a liquid dielectric and then let the liquid drain out or would that be cheating ?
The best arrangment is to buy power at night when it is at its cheapest
I'm not sure if someone has mentioned this yet but there is currently being developed a carbon 'slurry' that can store and discharge electricity at massive rates depending on the size of the slurry tank/converter, if this could be utilized for electric vehicles, they could run on a tank of said slurry, then when they need more power, go to a petrol station, attach the car and have the negatively charged slurry extracted and replaced with positively charged slurry?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120711104809.htm
You can connect a 9 vdc battery to an R-C oscillator to produce an a/c sine wave of about 9 volts peak-to-peak. Connect that a/c to the primary coil of a 1:25 step-up transformer, and the secondary will be about 220 volts peak-to-peak or 155 vac. Put that thru a full-wave rectifier to get 220 vdc. Of course if you put too much of a load on the circuit, the a/c will no longer be a sine wave, and the output voltage will decrease.
You can get higher voltages with the same transformer if you continually interrupted the current from a battery to the primary coil by rapidly switching the primary current on and off. Before we had transistors and solid-state relays, this was done by connecting a relay's output contacts in series with its own current.
The d/c voltage output of the vibrating switch is a square wave, but the primary current is more like a trapezoidal wave. A transformer with a 1:10 ratio will increase the voltage of a sine-wave input ten fold. But the output voltage depends on the rate at which the input current rises and falls. You might get 1:100 voltage increase from a 1:10 transformer.