The_Mather1

1(fail)-6(max). I'm at 3.9, wou've been much higher if not for Norwegian being two grades (written and oral) and my gym grade being ridiculously low (I went down from a 5 at the end of tenth grade to a 3 last semester, even though I perform way above avarage and I got a 6- on the theory test). I get 3 in Norwegian and 5 in English (and I have so since eight grade), I wonder why... :rolleyes: Archi, GPA is grade avarage.

I'm going to open up a 24H SMP server in minecraft soon, I'm cooperating with Ouyso to get it up and running. So far the server is made and the spawn is prepared, there are just a few adjustments left to do, then all we gotta do is to get the website up and running and it'll be ready.

Here we're guaranteed a minimum scholarship + the price of "renting" a school computer. Although if we're gone from school for more than two weeks total, it becomes a no-interest loan until we're... 25 I believe... at which point it begins building up interest.

I get ~1,500$ a year in scholarships.

Well, then I'm going to have to use a wireless tazer, god bless photoionization.

It is both feasible and practical, they're just not as effective as modern weapons, which I assume is the reason for not being weaponized, however here, our weapons don't work against any armour at all and energy weapons are the only ones capable of doing damage to those with even light personell armour. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_coil#High_frequency_electrical_safety

I'm sick of being nerfed because real science makes something powerful. It is powerful because physics makes it possible, as in if you were to make it right now, it'd be just as powerful. Stop nerfing science!

I didn't ask for you oppinion on the game, I was pointing out how the way most people think of RS is similiar to what Iey's counterargument to Nex' oppinion answered.

Archi, shut up about Watts! A capacitor is a high-speed battery with a small max charge, once a capacitor reches a certain charge, Culomb, the spark gap triggers. When no alternative circuit is present, the capacitor is like a rechargable battery, it fills up with a static electric charge. When the alternative circuit is opened, the capacitor acts like a power source with no resistance, allowing it to discharge in nanoseconds. Also the weapon is seemingly impossible because you broke it, you don't mess around saying something is a supercpnductor unless you have a reason to make it a superconductor, good old fashion 1mm enameled copper wire would still be able to deliver a lethal shock. As for the infinithesimal time passing, it is enough to deliver the shock, because with one ifinithesimally long pulse every fifth of a second, there's still a pulse to actually fire with. Your modifications to the weapon just made it spntaniously combust the target at the first hit. Now that you have demonstated your lack of knowledge on the subject, let me explain how a practically constructable tesla coil would behave. First off, we start with a short, thick copper wire turned a very few times around another coil: 0,0125*(5cm diameter * 5 turns + 5cm extra)/5mm² = 0,00075Ohm Then a 10mF capcitor with a 100V, 10A input: 100*0,01=1Culomb 1/10=0,1second charge time. Now a switch then a spark gap to connect them: 100/0,00075=133,333.333A 1/133,333.333~0,0000075second discharge time. Secondary coil has 1500 turns: 100/5*1500=30,000V 133,333.333*5/1500~444A 133,333.333*100~444*30,000~13,000,000W Now this is a very realistic coil, there is likely more than one with specs exactly like this except for the switch. I'll upload a pic of the circuit, with calculations, confirmed accurate by some other people in my class.

General opinion of RuneScape, anyone? That's the general opinion of most MMORPGs one doesn't have any experience with, if you haven't played it then you believe the rumors and/or fear being concieved as one of the steryotype players. Only around 0.1% of those who thinks certain MMORPGs sucks have actually tried it for themselves. That being said, I've tried WoW and I agree with Nex.

Electricity contrary to what people believe is not freely moving electrons, it is electrons slowly moving, colliding into eachother, the transfer of energy that we use is actually that kinetic energy, still, the electrons themselves do move a little, thus enabling electromagnetism. Amperage is the amount of moving electrons passing through a plane in the wire, higher resistance means that there aren't as many electrons that can move, no resistance means that they can all move, so in a superconductive circuit the actual charge is nulled at almost the exact same moment as the circuit is completed. You can look at it as showing marbles into a tube, the charge is the pressure with which the marbles are pushed, the resistance is how thin the tube is and how much force is keeping them from being pushed and current is how many marbles that pop out of the other end each second. Effect, or wattage, as Archi was talking about is how far the marbles that pop out per second fly when added together. And a superconductive circuit is as if the tube is infinatly wide and pointing downwards, so no matter how hard you push them, they can't really go much faster or further.

The electrons themsekves don't move faster (they actually only move a few meter per hour) , just in a greater density, so the charge moves faster.

Nex, Amperage is not a something, it is a speed, the amperage is how many electrons are passing a plane per second divided by a few billion, infinite amperage just means the entire charge moves across the wire in an infinithesimal amount of seconds. Besically the very moment there is conection, the entire charge has passed.

The capacitor is a temporary medium for storage of energy, as it charges, it does not affect current, but if an alternative route around the capacitor is opened, the entire built-up charge will flow through that, resulting in a much higher amperage and overall charge than if there was no capacitor. The capacitor is like a rechargable battery, only way faster. If you put a piece of metal over a gap where there was 100 volts in between, there wouldn't even a spark, however add 400mF of capacitors between there in parallel and let them charge for a few seconds and repeat; bang, flashbang to the face.

Archi, I proved that they can deliver charges at a distance. I showed you that you were way off according to Ohm's law. Ohm's law is more important than wattage, as the effect is unknown to us until we know the current. Retech, learn electrics, now! EDIT: Here: http://www.the12volt.com/ohm/ohmslawcalculators.asp Put current as 100 and resistance as 0 in the third one down click =. EDIT2: Actually, try any online Ohm's law calculator, they all agree with me.

I proposed a Tesla gun, he said it was impossible, I proved it possible. He limited amperage, I showed him why the limit was off. He set the material to be superconductive, I told him that would make the amperage unlimited. He tells me that the wattage is more important, I showed that infinite aperage means infinite wattage. Archi, amperage don't go anywhere, they're the speed of the voltage. The capacitor is filled and becomes a powersource of its own, as it has no resistance, it releases voltage as fast as it can once the switch is flipped. As there is no resistance elsewhere the voltage moves at infinite speed, so while the amperage is infinite, the time of the charge is infinithecimal.

Ross, I'm not going to let Archi rape the physics of something which he insists to use.

Archi, you only start with Voltage and Ohms, then from those you calculate Amperage and then Wattage, that is the order in which things are known, unless it is directly powered by a power supply then the Amperage is unknown, and as we have capacitors (the second most important component in a tesla coil) the power supply does in no way limit the Amperage. If we start a simulation, what happens at first is that there is 100V charging the capacitor with an unimportant current, when the capacitor is fully charge, it the trigger is pulled, 100V are passing through a coil with 0Ω which results in ∞A and thus ∞W that is expended on nothing. Those ∞W are kept over the step up, which means that as the Voltage rises to 32MV, the current remains ∞A. Is that simple enough for you? No Resistance = infinite Amperage, infinite Amperage + existing Voltage = infinite Wattage. Not my idea to turn the amperage infinite, you were the one who said we were using superconductors. In math: 100V/0Ω=∞A, 100V*∞A=∞W. Retech, we cannot comprehend the theory of dividing by zero, in practical use it outputs infinity. Also infinity is not a real number. This shows why you should not use superconductors unless you know their properties. Also:

Archi, the stepping up is not what is limiting the original current, the resistance of the first primary coil is, and without resistance the amperage is infinite and thus stays infinite in the secondary coil. Retech, dividing by zero has an answer, we are just not capable of understanding it. But as we are not the most accurate representation is zero, as logic sais, and since this is a practical use of math, standard rules made to prevent headaches are ommited, because guess what, the laws of physics don't care squat about what we comprehend.

Archi, the current is (100/≈0) ∞A before step up, and (∞/320,000) ∞A after. It is quite simple, because a superconductor has no valid effect because there is no heating. I'd prefer not to ask one of my teachers to spell it out to you. But as a superconductor has no resistance, it has infinite current, you could change the wire to be a semi-conductor, but at this level of voltage it'd have to be made of mercury to be close to 1A even at 125m lenght. (125m of 1mm² mercure wire would have 120Ω, so it would actually mean 0,83A, but that was the closest I could find. But what idiot would make a wire out of a poorly conductive metal that isn't even solid?)

Retech, this isn't math, it's basic electronics, current can't be invalid and existing. An analogy would be a waterpipe, the electrical resistance is equivalent to the resistance the water faces when going through it, if there is no resistance at all the water flows through it at an infinite rate, because if the water is can travel trough a space that is not limited in any way, then all will go at once, no matter how much there is and as such the current is infinite. Drake, no resistance = no "friction", no "friction" = no heat. ∞²*0=0

Well, a 1cm core would in fact be quite a waste of space as well as wire, and the reason I was talking about resistance is because that is the only thing limiting the orginial current, and your statement with 1A was ridicuolusly low. And with a perfect (aka. superconducting) wire, the current would be near-infinite, meaning the secondary coil would also have a near-infinite current. Ohm's law as you showed knowlegde of states that I=U/R, which means I=100/1x10-?, whereas ? is an unknown, ridiculously high, nearly infinite number. You could state that it would be limited, but it would not, as the capacitors are releasing the current and it does not pass through a fuse or power supply after that. So, the current should be 100/0, but as we cannot divide by zero, we have to divide by the closest existing number, which is 1 after infinite decimals, so as a result I=∞.

A 1mm wire would have to be several tens of kilometers long to have 100Ω resistance, one would assume the wire would have to be around 25cm, at which point a copper wire would have (0,0175*0,25/1) 4.375mΩ and as such a the current would be (100V/0,004375mΩ) 22.857kA. Then the step up brings it up by 100, giving us a voltage of 10kV and a current of 228.57A, then 3,200, giving us a voltage of 32MV and a current of 7.14mA, still many times lethal current.

On the note of combat, I need some weapon with long range, preferably something intended for gnomes.