Timeline for Resistance between two points on a conducting surface
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| Feb 16, 2011 at 13:10 | comment | added | Bossavit | It's not "a certain amount of current" but an uncertain one. How much current flows in the situation you describe depends on unspecified parameters, mainly, the contact resistance, and/or the area of effective contact between the wire and the object. | |
| Feb 15, 2011 at 16:29 | comment | added | Ted Bunn | Maybe I'm just being stupid here. If you connect a thin wire to point A and another at point B, and apply a potential difference between the two, a certain amount of current will flow (spread out through the entire object). The ratio is the resistance. | |
| Feb 15, 2011 at 16:02 | history | answered | Bossavit | CC BY-SA 2.5 |