Re: TC Electrostatics (fwd)

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• From: lod-at-pacbell-dot-net
• Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 21:03:48 -0800
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Richard Wayne Wall wrote:

> 12/20/96
> 
> GL wrote:
> >
> >Isn't Ohm's law at work here as well?  I am convinced that if you
> >replace the 100 ft wire with a (non-conductive) 100 ft string, that
> >the apparatus will not work.
> 
> Ohm's law applies only to electrodynamics, but never to electrostatics.
> There is no movement of charge in electrostatics, therefore there is no
> current and E=IR isn't applicable.  Only the electrostatic field may
> vary about an ES charge.  This ES field produces the Coulombic force
> which is capable of tremendous work.
> 
> If an electrostatic charge moves or changes position then immediately
> EM current is created and Ohm's law applies.  This applies to the 100'
> wire above if charge is redistributed in the wire.  If a charged
> capacitor (ES) is discharge by a conductor then electrodynamics (ED)
> occur, EM is produced and Ohm's law applies only as long as charge
> changes position.
> 
> RWW

So, do you agree that the conductive wire is transferring charge from
one sphere to the other in this experiment?

-GL

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