Re: There's work, and then there's work

[David Rutherford <drutherford@SOFTCOM.NET>]

Bob LaMontagne wrote:
> David Rutherford wrote:
>
> > Bob LaMontagne wrote:
> > >
> >
> > > Also, since the negative electrons are the only feasible current carriers available to
> > > actually travel through the wires, it's a rather mute point.
> >
> > Then what happens to the positive charges on the other plate? Aren't
> > they affected by the potential difference between the plates? If not,
> > why not?
>
> I think the only meaningful response is that the direct measurement of the energy dissipated
> through the resistor demonstrates that the positive charges on the other plate simply do not
> contribute to the process. Again, they do not move as the potential changes, so no work is done
> on them - which is the point often argued on this email list.

How can you say that the negative charges move, but the positive charges
don't? What makes the negative (or positive) charges special? If the
positive charges don't move, doesn't this _experimental result_ sort of
disprove one of the most basic laws of physics, Coulomb's Law?

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