Let’s say that I am a police officer, wrestling with a perp when my partner pulls out his taser and stuns the perp. Will I be unaffected, feel a minor tingle, or be fully shocked?
How about some other realistic scenarios. Let’s say someone is using a fork to dig a piece of toast out of the toaster and someone else happens to make contact. Or someone in the ER doesn’t jump back from the patient fast enough when the doc with the paddles shouts “CLEAR!” In other words, how well does a human body conduct electricity? And does it matter whether the current is AC or DC?
Assume, for the sake of the question, that the two bodies are in firm contact with each other and both are grounded.
My google fu failed me on this, but I think there have been demonstrations where many people have held hand in a line, the first is shocked, and the shock is felt right down at the end of the line. I would presume that this, like a taser, requires a high voltage, but low ampage (to avoid killing them).
Stephen Gray, the 18th century scientist who is credited with actually having discovered electrical conduction, used to do public demonstrations involving current being conducted through people’s bodies. This what would now generally be called “static electricity” effects, such as electrical repulsion or attraction, but the point is that Gray showed that the power to cause these effects could be conveyed from the static generator to a distant place through various conductive substances, including human bodies (and I think, sometimes, multiple ones in series).