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Bob Sciamanda wrote:suppose
I think his algorithm, in effect, treats the capacitor as if it were a
battery. His imposition of J=sigma*E inside the conductors ( and I
inside the capacitor) forces a current flow.
OK. Then it's not as crazy as I thought.
Just poorly expressed.
After all, a battery can be thought of as a
reeeeally high-capacitance capacitor.
This must be a severely overdamped RLC circuit.
What Preyer calls "steady state" should be reworded
as an _intermediate_ timescale (tau). Some things have
happened on a time scale much shorter than tau, such as
relaxation of the current pattern, radiation, inductive
effects, et cetera. But RC relaxation (i.e. discharge of
the battery) happens on a timescale much longer than tau.
And then I'm not sure that this scenario should be
called "the simplest circuit". This is several steps
removed from utmost simplicity, IMHO.