Timeline for Why are electrons not pushed out from the conductor at an open circuit under the influence of a power source?
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| Sep 27, 2014 at 21:04 | comment | added | Roman Starkov | If you're using water to visualise how electricity works, it's also important to remember that the "circuit" (pipework) either lies flat, or is in space where there is no gravity. | |
| Sep 26, 2014 at 0:44 | comment | added | Nick T | Good visualization. More wordy: the energy barrier for electrons to "leak" is extremely high, and only occurs when the "pressures" (voltages) are extreme or when they are (stretching the metaphor now) "boiled" away by incoming photons via the photoelectric effect. | |
| Sep 24, 2014 at 22:20 | history | answered | Owen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |