If you touch the two terminals of a power supply with your two fingertips on opposite hands, the potential difference will produce a current through your torso. The maximum safe current is approximately 5 mA.

If your hands are completely dry, the resistance of your body from fingertip to fingertip is approximately 530 kΩ. If you accidentally touch both terminals of your 120 V household electricity supply with dry fingers, what current will flow, and will you receive a dangerous shock?

Consider two metallic rods mounted on insulated supports. one is neutral, the other positively charged. you bring the two rods close to each, but without contact, and briefly ground the the neutral rod by touching it with your hand. show answer correct answer what would be resulting charge (if any) on the initially neutral rod

Search coils and credit cards. one practical way to measure magnetic field strength uses a small, closely wound coil called a search coil. the coil is initially held with its plane perpendicular to a magnetic field. the coil is then either quickly rotated a quarter-turn about a diameter or quickly pulled out of the field. (a) derive the equation relating the total charge q that flows through a search coil to the magnetic-field magnitude b. the search coil has n turns, each with area a, and the flux through the coil is decreased from its initial maximum value to zero in a time ∆t. the resistance of the coil is r, and the total charge is q = i∆t, where i is the average current induced by the change in flux. (b) in a credit card reader, the magnetic strip on the back of a credit card is rapidly “swiped” past a coil within the reader. explain, using the same ideas that underlie the operation of a search coil, how the reader can decode the information stored in the pattern of magnetization on the strip. (c) is it necessary that the credit card be “swiped” through the reader at exactly the right speed? why or why not?

The frequencies refer to the sample data collected from a population of interest when performing a hypothesis test comparing two or more population proportions.