Re: Toward the equilibrium

[Bob Sciamanda <trebor@VELOCITY.NET>]

Those interested in the details of 1), below should look at:

Saslow & Wilkinson, "Expulsion of free electronic charge from the interior
of a metal", AJP 39, Oct 1971, pg 1244,

and the text

"Electromagnetic Fields and Interactions", Becker & Sauter, Vol1, pg 239,
Blaisdell, 1964

Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
trebor@velocity.net
http://www.velocity.net/~trebor

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Sciamanda" <trebor@VELOCITY.NET>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: Toward the equilibrium


> Ohanian (AJP, Nov 1983, pg 1020) treats the approach to equilibrium as a
> three-step process:
> 1) the "expulsion" of unbalanced free charge from the interior volume of
> the conductor,
> 2) the "expulsion" of fields and currents from the interior,
> 3) the damping out of oscillating surface currents and wave fields.
> . . .