EnPassant
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Damn, but this is interesting stuff (not sarcasm honest. cross my heart and hope to die).
I've been watching a series of physics for future presidents lectures from 2006 on you tube. Quite how I got to be doing this is a bit tedious, suffice to say I was endeavouring to discern the difference between various types of Nuclear Radiation (which crops up in I think, lecture 7) and got carried away watching the whole series as one does.
Anyway, the reason for posting here, is since you wonderous engineering types are having a bit of a seminar, I have a question from the floor... the answer to which wasn't obvious from this series of lectures even though they cover both electricity and nuclear radiation (or I sneezed and missed it).
If electricity is the flow of electrons, and beta radiation is the emission of electrons...what's the difference?
I sort of understand electricity isn't exactly a flow per se, i.e. not one electron passing down the wire followed by another, more of a wave thing where one pushes the next. But I still don't quite get the difference between this and beta radiation.
I hope I've phrased that in an understandable fashion (though it's odds on I won't comprehend the answer straight away
)
TIA.
I've been watching a series of physics for future presidents lectures from 2006 on you tube. Quite how I got to be doing this is a bit tedious, suffice to say I was endeavouring to discern the difference between various types of Nuclear Radiation (which crops up in I think, lecture 7) and got carried away watching the whole series as one does.
Anyway, the reason for posting here, is since you wonderous engineering types are having a bit of a seminar, I have a question from the floor... the answer to which wasn't obvious from this series of lectures even though they cover both electricity and nuclear radiation (or I sneezed and missed it).
If electricity is the flow of electrons, and beta radiation is the emission of electrons...what's the difference?
I sort of understand electricity isn't exactly a flow per se, i.e. not one electron passing down the wire followed by another, more of a wave thing where one pushes the next. But I still don't quite get the difference between this and beta radiation.
I hope I've phrased that in an understandable fashion (though it's odds on I won't comprehend the answer straight away
)TIA.
