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Professor Corse du Mu Oulin's Muggle Studies Class
What is Muggle Studies?
Boring? Non! Easy? NON!
It is a merging of cultures, of minds, of worlds. It is the most wonderful subject you will ever learn!
Attention, etudiants, your first assignment is to give me four inches of parchment on the greatest of Muggle inventions - electricity!
((OOC - four inches = four lines. please post characters name if you wish to get house points. in case you haven't noticed, Professor Oulin is French!))
Electricity is a weird muggle invention, it's made for light and things like that (like they can't use candles or something) they keep their houses warm and watch weird screens with tiny little people on them.. Electricity is given by weird strings and if you touch them you will get a shock.. this invention is invented by William Gilbert. The first machine that made electricity was explained by Otto van Guericke in 1672.
Because muggles cannot use magic, they make inventions such as electricity to easy theyr lives, they are used to turn on lights, radios, TV sets, computers and lots other things, they make electricity by using water, toxic stuffs and so on, by doing this they alter nature it self, and starts ruining the planet, they alter the course of rivers to build hydroeletric stuffs, the toxic waste they make they throw on the ocean, polluting it and ruining the echosistem of that place.
Drake Faydark, Ravenclaw.
PS:How do i know all that stuff? Though my parents are wizards, i spent my time in the muggles cities, so i got used to those stuff.
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Last edited by Red_Drake on Jan 7th, 2004 at 02:26 PM
Electricity is an invention that the muggles use as substitude for magic.
They use it to quickly communicate to others (Radio, Television, Telephone),
to cook (done faster than making a fire for a muggle),
and have electric bulbs as replacement for oil lamps. Tey build big towers with "cables" to bring electricity to every town and village.
(I'm muggleborn...)
Joshua Granger, Gryffindor, 3rd year.
Muggles are really interesting creatures, their non-magical and i often cant belive how they come out without magic. their big invention is electrity.
it's really interesting to study the electrity. They have batteries, connectors and connector sockets. they have for example lamps, which works if you put the connector into the connector socket. lamps are things like wands, which are bright they work with electrity.
then there are pocket lamps, they're smarter and works with batteries.
electrity is a name for a power which can change the temperautr (heating apperatus), quickly communication (internet, televsions, telephone....) so they can talk to each other and not have to be at the same place (they dont know floo powder...)
there is electrity cooking, too. it's faster than cooking with a normal fire.
okay, i know, my english isnt very well and i had to look up something...
OOC
Karen a Syltherin 5th year
BIC
Electricity is a type of light tat muggles use in there homes and other buildings.They also use it at night with these long polls. They use electricty to cook there food, an example would be a microwave. They also can play with electricty by useing wut they call magnets. Also some muggles say if your wearing socks and u drag them across a rug then u create static electicity, which i dont get....
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By Jenny Smith
5th year, Gryffindor
Muggles or non-magic folk, are without the simple solutions of magic. This causes them to use science to find other means of simplifying daily tasks. One of these means is electricity.Electricity has many meanings. A power in nature, a manifestation of energy, exhibiting itself when in disturbed equilibrium or in activity by a circuit movement, the fact of direction in which involves polarity, or opposition of properties in opposite directions; also, by attraction for many substances, by a law involving attraction between surfaces of unlike polarity, and repulsion between those of like; by exhibiting accumulated polar tension when the circuit is broken; and by producing heat, light, concussion, and often chemical changes when the circuit passes between the poles or through any imperfectly conducting substance or space. It is generally brought into action by any disturbance of molecular equilibrium, whether from a chemical, physical, or mechanical, cause.
Intense, contagious emotional excitement. Or an electric current used or regarded as a source of power. Some types of electricity:
Statical electricity, called also
Frictional or Common, electricity, electricity in the condition of a stationary charge, in which the disturbance is produced by friction, as of glass, amber, etc., or by induction. (b)
Dynamical electricity, called also
Voltaic electricity, electricity in motion, or as a current produced by chemical decomposition, as by means of a voltaic battery, or by mechanical action, as by dynamo-electric machines. (c)
Thermoelectricity, in which the disturbing cause is heat (attended possibly with some chemical action). It is developed by uniting two pieces of unlike metals in a bar, and then heating the bar unequally. (d)
Atmospheric electricity, any condition of electrical disturbance in the atmosphere or clouds, due to some or all of the above mentioned causes. (e)
Magnetic electricity, electricity developed by the action of magnets. (f)
Positive electricity, the electricity that appears at the positive pole or anode of a battery, or that is produced by friction of glass; -- called also vitreous electricity. (g)
Negative electricity, the electricity that appears at the negative pole or cathode, or is produced by the friction of resinous substance; -- called also resinous electricity. (h)
Organic electricity, that which is developed in organic structures, either animal or vegetable, the phrase animal electricity being much more common.
2. The science which unfolds the phenomena and laws of electricity; electrical science.
3. Fig.: Electrifying energy or characteristic.
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Well, muggles suck at everything, except hurting the planet. To do this better they invented electricity, which, although helping them live in comfort, forces them to destroy the environment. All over the world non-humans, like mermen and centaurs are preparing to rise up and kill all who use this. they will, of course, lose. Muggles also have guna, metal wands.
Dale, Gryffindor.
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Electricity helps muggles a lot. It is used to turn the lights on and off and can be used to make a room warmer or to cook food sometimes. Muggles need electricity to do a lot of things. It saves them a lot of work. They have been using electricity for a long time and would have a hard time with out it.
Electricity is extreamly important to the daily lives of muggles. They use it for nearly everything they do. It gives them light, warmth, entertainment, and protection. They would be very lost with out it. Each event of their day, most likely requires electricity in some way. It powers their cars and heat their stoves. It is essential in the survival of muggles.
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Another curled parchment, just like the rest, though this one had really nothing wrong with it. Good penmanship. Well that's what he thought, his lovely new quill did define his letters more.
Electricity
This source of energy, which is but mere excited electrons moving through a certain medium, usually a wire of the metallic sort since their compact molecular structure easily enables them to conduct electricity. This invention was not really invented but just tapped from nature since lightning are natural forms of electricity with its electrons traveling across the skies. Perhaps this is one of the closest ways Muggles can use magic because they are merely changing one form of energy to another, like the kinetic energy used in dams create electricity. This is supported by Albert Einstein, a great muggle mind, who supports the law of conservation of energy with the equation energy equals mass times acceleration squared. It means that energy can never be destroyed, it just changes into something else. Electricity are used in various ways, and is now a very important part of Muggle society since it is used to run most of the large cities.
Ocean Oliver, Ravenclaw
PS its not a very shocking revelation : )
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