+120V

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If a wire is at +120V does it have more electrons or fewer
than a wire of equal size at ground?

 

[Bob]

If a wire is at +120V does it have more electrons or fewer
than a wire of equal size at ground?

Read page 243 of your textbook.

Bob

 

[Pooh Bear]

If a wire is at +120V does it have more electrons or fewer
than a wire of equal size at ground?

The very premise of your question is flawed hence there is no direct answer.

Graham

 

[Jasen Betts]

If a wire is at +120V does it have more electrons or fewer
than a wire of equal size at ground

assuming no external electrostatic fields.

If they aaare exactly thhe same size (or better the exact same wire)
the wire with +120V will have a few fewer electrons.

120V is not much of a static charge and the deficiency of electrons
will be relatively small.

Bye.
Jasen

 

[Electromotive Guru]

Actually to correct you all, a +120v bias to any conductor has no mor
electrons than the grounded wire at all, no matter what the gauge
Voltage potential means nothing interms of the amount of electrons i
a conductor, because iof they are both copper, the electron count i
the same regardless of charge either way

Not to be snotty, but the facts present themselves....This is
popular trick question in electron physics...

For the rest of you, a static charge can develop at as little a
0.001pV, and as a whole the assumption of "static
electricity is wholly misunderstood. Run your fingers through you
hair and you can generate 50V easily.....You should stud
"peeling" a bit more when it comes to stati
charge...lifting a sheet of plastic off a table can generate as muc
as 1500V..