Re: non-potential voltage

[Bob Sciamanda <trebor@VELOCITY.NET>]

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From: "John S. Denker" <jsd@MONMOUTH.COM>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: non-potential voltage


> . . .
> If "steady state" means DC, then K's law has nothing to say about
> capacitors of any kind, or about fringing fields, and is not very
useful.
>

Consider a steady state DC circuit with one particular (compound) branch
consisting of a resistor in parallel with a capacitor.
With or without fringing, K's laws apply -  and usefully.

Bob

Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
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