RE: Quarter Wavelength Frequency

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Original poster: "Malcolm Watts" <m.j.watts-at-massey.ac.nz> 

On 11 Jul 2004, at 17:28, Tesla list wrote:

 > Original poster: "David Thomson" <dwt-at-volantis-dot-org>
 >
 > Hi Terry,
 >
 > You raise an excellent point concerning the magnetic transfer of
 > current through a coil.  So are you saying the current is flowing
 > through the coil as both electrons AND photons, with the electrons
 > flowing the length of the wire and the photons flowing the length of
 > the coil?
 >
 > If this is the case, how do we quantify the split traffic?  Are there
 > equations we can use to determine how much work is being performed by
 > the electrons and how much is being performed by the photons?
 >
 > Is there a certain ratio of traffic along each route that is better
 > than other ratios?
 >
 > It would appear that a coil is then quantified simultaneously as a
 > radio frequency and as an AC current, with different quantities of
 > work being performed by each.  The total work would be the total work
 > of the AC plus the total work of the RF.
 >
 > Dave

Wave velocity is the speed a disturbance (which influences electrons
in the wire) propagates along the length of the coil, not the speed
with which electrons travel within the wire.

Malcolm