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Re: Non-conservative forces in a liquid dielectric



At 05:48 PM 5/20/2003 +0300, Pentcho, you wrote:
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water comes between the plates and even rises high above the surface of
the pool. At
the expense of what energy? Again, a freshman who has studied the first
law may ask
you this simple question.

Pentcho


I will offer a freshman's naive response as a straw-man:
the energy needed to raise water above the surrounding surface would be
supplied by
a current pulse into the charged capacitor?
If water is added after the current source is disconnected, then a portion
of the
stored energy is taken?

Brian Whatcott Altus OK