Re: The Capacitor problem - once more

[brian whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

At 11:04 6/3/99 -0500, you wrote:
> Hi Mark:
>        You write:
> *****************************************************************
> If I understand Jack right, then we can bring the C3 plates together in
> infinitesmal steps, keeping the charge in pseudo-equilibrium, and absorbing
> the "excess" energy as we do so. In this case, it seems that it does not
> matter if the connecting wires are superconducting or not. Or is my
> intuition faulty here?
> *************************
>        Not faulty.....
>                                                Jack



Hmmm...perhaps Jack ought to mention whether he believes that current
 flows into the C3 capacitor as its plates are brought together.
If he does, can he accept that an IsquaredR loss is not rate dependent?
 And so some energy is given up to heating the connecting wires UNLESS
 they are superconducting?

brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Altus OK