Re: CHARGED CAPACITOR TERM

[herbgottlieb@juno.com (Herbert H. Gottlieb)]

On Sun, 15 Feb 1998 16:52:42 -0400 (EDT) LUDWIK KOWALSKI
<KOWALSKIL@alpha.montclair.edu> writes:
> I tend to agree with Bob that we have more potentially domaging 
> misconceptions than the one which can possibly result from taking the 
> phrase "charging a capacitor" in a perverted way. But the phrase 
> "energizing it" is probably better and I will start using it.

Changes always bring new problems.  If you short your ENERGIZED
capacitor,
will you produce a discharge current? ...or will it be a de-energized
current?
If its a de-energized current, will the current flow in the same
direction
as electron curren ---- or will it flow in the direction of conventional
current?

Herb Gottlieb from New York City
(Where we disCHARGE energized capacitors with a shorting bar) 

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