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[TCML] Wireless Transmission Theory
There were several errors in Corum's papers. Just keep this in mind if
you are using their ideas for serious research work.
I wish Gary and Rich Quick all the best luck though in their attempts to
make new discoveries.
Dr. Resonance
> On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Gary Peterson wrote:
>
>> Regarding the wireless transmission of electrical energy between a Tesla
>> coil transmitter and a Tesla coil receiver, it is my understanding that
>> only
>> three mechanisms are available according to accepted electromagnetic
>> field
>> theory. These are far-field electromagnetic radiation or ordinary radio
>> waves, mutual induction and mutual capacitance.
>
> There is a fourth: travelling EM waves coupled to a conductor. Waves of
> current in a conductor and voltage along a conductor are coupled to EM
> travelling waves. After all, that's how a TC secondary works, as
> described in Corum's papers.
>
> Imagine winding a TC secondary onto a rubber hose: a very long, very
> narrow coil with a rubber core. If you inductively inject EM pulses near
> one end of this coiled wire, they will travel along it. That's not
> "radiation," any more than DC circuits involve radiation. It's nearfield
> physics.
>
> The Goubau or "G-line" uses similar physics, but without the coil. The 2D
> case is the Zenneck surface waves travelling over a resistive
> plane. And as with G-lines, the challenge is to build a "launcher" which
> matches transmitter impedance to the waveguide. For VLF, the launcher
> size would necessarily be << wavelength, so a high-Q resonant matching
> network would be an obvious choice.
>
> Note well that these are not "radio waves..." or perhaps I should turn it
> around and say that 60Hz power lines and flashlight circuits are actually
> conductive waveguides for EM fields, for electromagnetic energy of low
> frequency.
>
>
>
>> Another proposed mechanism for which a mathematical description is
>> presently
>> being sought is that which Tesla referred to as "electrostatic
>> induction."
>> Can you help me out in this regard?
>
> That sounds like another way of saying "mutual capacitance."
>
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