02-26-2013, 04:40 AM
I am honestly wondering the same thing. I mean "impossible" results in labs happen fairly often because of errors made from one thing or another, but I can't think of any possible way that this could be caused. The only thing I can think of was that our signal generator was somehow generating an oscillating magnetic field (which it definitely isn't supposed to do) strong enough to create a current in the wire. But it was only going through the positive end, not the negative end, which doesn't make sense, because that means it was somehow pulling electrons into the wire, but not pushing them back out of it. Which also doesn't make sense because you'd build up a charge and all kinds of crazy electrostatic things would start to happen, but they didn't.