Timeline for If I have a battery, and I connect two very long cables to it, with their ends separated, will I feel the current as soon as I touch both ends?
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| Dec 9, 2016 at 19:54 | comment | added | freecharly | Two very long parallel lines (100.000km long), like envisioned by the OP, charged to a voltage V long time ago, in the initial time after adding a load to the terminals, don't behave like an RC-circuity. See my expanded answer below. | |
| Dec 9, 2016 at 0:09 | history | edited | CR Drost | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 9, 2016 at 0:00 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | While both effects you mention are important, I think the transmission line effects (the RC-circuit) will dominate on the distances the OP is considering. @YoTengoUnLCD, if you want to explore this question further, I recommend starting with these effects. They're also a nice place to start because there are many examples in communications where these effects are a driving factor, so there's lots of people out there ready to explain them! | |
| Dec 8, 2016 at 23:41 | history | answered | CR Drost | CC BY-SA 3.0 |