Re: AC electricity

["Bernard G. Cleyet & Nancy Ann Seese" <georgeann@REDSHIFT.COM>]

That's because it's not a transistor!  Electrons move faster in transistors.

bc

P.s  It's more like a few inches a second and the same for any size kinescope
(One or two seconds is a bit optimistic).  How do they explain the fact that
it comes up to speed slowly?

Tim O'Donnell wrote:

> That is the way my students would see it!
> Tim
> > As one of my more observant students pointed out this  cannot be true. It
> takes as
> > long as one or two seconds for the TV to make a picture when it is turned
> on.
> > Clearly the speed of electrons must be only  1 or 2 feet per second.  :-)
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