Re: Missing Energy

[William Beaty <billb@ESKIMO.COM>]

On Thu, 20 May 1999, Michael Edmiston wrote:

> However, for typical capacitors and wires in
> the lab I assume that resistive losses and heating of the dielectric
> will transfer that "missing energy" into the thermal realm pretty
> quickly.

But Mr. Hertz used such a device to intentionally emit waves.  I guess it
depends mostly on the value of the capacitor.  Would not a low-value
capacitor that looks a bit like a UHF dipole antenna, paired with a
one-turn conductor that looks a bit like a UHF loop antenna, radiate quite
a bit of EM energy in comparison to thermal losses?  Better use a 10,000uF
capacitor and therefor lower the oscillation frequency a bit.

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