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Tisthammerw
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I've seen one guy claim there's no such thing as electrons. Not wanting to disbelieve my physics textbooks, can anyone help me here?
Standing wave in a feed line or antenna means that there is a voltage and a charge at one point and not at another even though the two places are connected by a conductor. If there were electrons, this would imply that one spot in a conductor had many electrons clustered and snother spot a few inches away had none. Even though no resistance inhibits the flow of electrons from the point of maximum charge to the point of no charge. This is contrary to electron behavior according to electron theory.
Skin effect is the observed condition where at high frequencies, current is conducted by only the outside layer of a conductor, not at all by the inside. What (according to electron theory) is the difference between those atoms in the outer layer and those in the inner part of a conductor?
Electron theory says that the positive pole of a battery has a deficiency of electrons and the negative pole has an excess. If that were true, connecting the positive pole of one battery to the negative pole of another battery would cause current to flow, but in the real world it doesn't.
Now, explain to me in terms of electron theory why lead-acid batteries have internal resistance and NiCad batteries don't?