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Re: HV Cap Fun!

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From: Jeffrey Siegal
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 1989 03:23
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In article <747@eplunix.UUCP> raoul@eplunix.UUCP (Otero) writes:
>Capacitors also pretty much contain their fields between their plates,
>where inductors' fields project beyond their cores and cause no end
>of grief....

Not if the inductor is torus (doughnut) shaped.  In this case the
field is completely internal.

Anyone know how close to "perfect" toroidal superconducting inductors
are?

Jeffrey Siegal
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From: jbs@fenchurch.mit.edu (Jeffrey Siegal)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.physics
Subject: Re: HV Cap Fun!
Keywords: capacitor,energy,paradox
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Date: 3 Jun 89 03:23:38 GMT
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