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Article #21574Re: HV Cap Fun!
From: Dennis M. O'Connor
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 1989 21:09
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 1989 21:09
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With a high resistance connection and zero inductance, the losses would be in to resistive heating. In a real system ( non-zero inductance and resistance ) the system will oscilate for a some time, with the oscillations getting smaller until they are beneath the thermal noise of the resistance. Resistive losses usually dominate, but some electromagnetic radiation occurs ( as it does whenever a charge is accelerated/decellerated ) In an ideal system ( non-arcing connection with 0 resistance and the 0 inductance, capable of handling infinite current ) the system loses energy entirely by electromagnetic radiation. That's how the big EMP simulators work, I think. Try shorting a big capacitor while someone in an adjacent, sonically-isolated area listens to an AM radio low in the band : you should be able to here the EM energy ! Of course, I could be wrong. I've TOTALLY negleted any and all quantum and relativistic effects ! :-) -- Dennis O'Connor oconnor%sungod@steinmetz.UUCP ARPA: OCONNORDM@CRD.GE.COM
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!nuke From: oconnor@nuke (Dennis M. O'Connor) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.physics Subject: Re: HV Cap Fun! Message-ID: <575@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 1 Jun 89 21:09:37 GMT References: <4924@m2c.M2C.ORG> <3806@mit-amt> <20772@quacky.mips.COM> <166@mother.dde.uucp> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: oconnor@nuke (Dennis M. O'Connor) Followup-To: sci.electronics Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center Lines: 23 In-reply-to: mbe@dde.uucp (Martin Berg)