Re: Ions on metals (not realy, but close)

["Bob Sciamanda" <trebor@velocity.net>]

But Bill?
Without knowing the details, all I can say is that the outside-fed
machine will work, but cannot be charged to the same potential as its
inside -fed machine,  ALL THINGS BEING EQUAL.  Now you must fess up -
what things were not equal?  Or maybe neither machine was pushed to its
limit -- maybe leakage was the limiting factor on both.

Theory ( and published experiment) says  :  if leakage is not the
limiting factor, the inside-fed machine will win.  ( There is no reason
for outside-fed (positive) charges to migrate onto a conductor of already
higher potential than their present environment; in fact they will be
repelled!)

I think the devil is in the details of your experiment; let's uncover
them.
-Bob

Bob Sciamanda
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (ret)
trebor@velocity.net
http://www.velocity.net/~trebor
-----Original Message-----
From: Mary and Bill Allsopp <callsopp@worldnet.att.net>
To: phys-l@atlantis.uwf.edu <phys-l@atlantis.uwf.edu>
Date: Friday, October 02, 1998 5:49 PM
Subject: Re: Ions on metals (not realy, but close)


> But Bob?
>
> The external belt vandegraph machine worked just fine.  This would seem
> to be a contradiction to the theory.  I would love to have a nice clean
> path to follow, but it looks like this is one of those exceptions that I
> just hate to trip over.
>
> Bill