Re: Missing Energy

[brian whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

At 14:55 5/20/99 -0400, you wrote:
> > *******************
> >         So do you conclude, as I do, that there is no issue of
> > "missing energy" because the closed system in which energy
> > is conserved consists of the two capacitors and the person
> > (or device) that brings the two capacitors together?  The
> > person must exert a force to combine the two plus leads and
> > the two minus leads.
> >         Thank you.
> >                         Regards,
> >                                 Jack
> Yes.
> The capacitors surely will not spontaneously connect themselves that
> way.
> Jerry Epstein


Hmmm....I'm quite sure that Jerry and Jack don't mean to imply that
the work involved in moving two caps together is equivalent to the
electrical energy lost from the joined capacitors compared with their
energy sum prior to union.

This would, after all, be wrong!   :-)

brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Altus OK