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At 01:43 PM 3/10/01 -0500, Bob Sciamanda wrote:Q
Perhaps more to the point:
Note that the only way to force V3 to always be zero, regardless of the
arbitrarilyvalues, is to let c=> infinity.
I have no idea what this means.
Until this instant, I was under the impression that every word of this
entire thread has been restricted to electrostatics... in which case c
doesn't appear in any of the equations. So adjusting its value can't
possibly change any of the conclusions.
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Also a nit-pick: constants of nature are not variables to be
adjusted. A better way to proceed is to say that electrostaticsinvolves
long time-scales tau and short length scales lambda, such thatlambda/tau << c.
language
This is an important idea; the only reason I call it a nit-pick is that
most people know how to translate from the sloppy c --> infinity
to the proper lambda/tau << c language, so the potential for realconfusion
is limited.or
So to restate my puzzlement: The whole thread has been assuming the
lambda/tau << c limit, so I cannot understand how making lambda smaller
tau larger is going to change anything.