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On Sep 21, 8:54 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> The theory is based on the assumption that all of the forces are
> CONSERVATIVE:
>
> W. Panofsky, M. Phillips, Classical Electricity and Magnetism, Addison-
> Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts (1962):
> p.96: "By assembling these charges we have changed the energy of the
> system, and since all of the forces are conservative, we can identify
> this expression for the work of assembly with the energy of the
> system."
> p.102: "The resultant energy expression is nevertheless general, since
> no nonconservative forces are involved."
> p.103: "We must remember that the only physical fact underlying this
> discussion is Coulomb's law, the remainder of the discusion being
> mathematical, and therefore we cannot expect to obtain any physical
> concept regarding the mechanical interaction of charges which will add
> any physical facts beyond Coulomb's law."
>
> Yet the fact that NONCONSERVATIVE forces are unavoidably involved is
> implicitly taken into account:
>
> W. Panofsky, M. Phillips, Classical Electricity and Magnetism, Addison-
> Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts (1962):
> p.100: "Thus we cannot equate the increment of the work done... to the
> increase in total energy, since heat transfers are also involved."
> p.115: "Therefore the decrease in force… cannot be explained by
> electrical forces alone."
> pp.115-116: "Thus the decrease in force that is experienced between
> two charges when they are immersed in a dielectric liquid can be
> understood only by considering the effect of the pressure of the
> liquid on the charges themselves. In accordance with the philosophy of
> the action-at-a-distance theory, no change in the purely electrical
> interaction between the charges takes place."
>
> Pentcho Valev
> pva...@yahoo.com

Pentcho now has expanded the scope of the branches of physics that he
does not understand from thermodynamics and relativity to now include
classical electrostatics. Not to mention that he thinks the whole
business of the scientific method is crapola.