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Re: Question from the past
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To: tesla-at-grendel.objinc-dot-com (Nikola Tesla aka Chip Atkinson)
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Subject: Re: Question from the past
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From: "SROYS" <SROYS-at-radiology.ab.umd.edu>
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Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 10:14:18 EDT
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MG> but for the sake of discussion, lets draw 5 series inductors, and
MG> from each connecting point between the inductors draw a capacitor
MG> to the ground plane, the highest capacitor being from the terminal
MG> capacitance to the ground plane...It should be obvious on
MG> examination that the inductive reactance will rise as the coil
MG> moves farther and farther from the ground end because the
MG> inductance is increasing, the same is true with the capacitive
MG> reactance because the capacitance to ground is DEcreasing
If I'm picturing this right, with the caps all wired in parallel from the coil
to ground, wouldn't this result in an increasing capacitance and a
corresponding decrease in capacitive reactance to ground as you
move up the coil and include more parallel capacitors?
Steven Roys (sroys-at-radiology.ab.umd.edu)