Day 9: At the Zurich Hauptbahnhof


While drinking my coffee, waiting on platform 13 of the imposing Zurich Hauptbahnhof for the train that would carry me to Munich, I noticed that the electric locomotives were powered by a single point of contact with an overhead wire above the train.

The physics question for today is: How is it possible to power an electric motor with only this single electrical contact?

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