Re: Surface Charges and Feedback in Simple Circuits

[Bob Sciamanda <trebor@VELOCITY.NET>]

Good Catch, John.
I think his algorithm, in effect, treats the capacitor as if it were a
battery. His imposition of J=sigma*E inside the conductors ( and I suppose
inside the capacitor) forces a current flow.

Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
trebor@velocity.net
http://www.velocity.net/~trebor
----- Original Message -----
From: "John S. Denker" <jsd@MONMOUTH.COM>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: Surface Charges and Feedback in Simple Circuits


> > Bob Sciamanda wrote:
> >
> > I think you will find this helpful:
> >
> >  http://galaxy.cofc.edu/pubs/tpt99/
>
> Uhhh, would somebody care to explain panel (d) of
> figure 4 on page
>   http://galaxy.cofc.edu/pubs/tpt99/node3.html
>
> This is allegedly the steady-state solution, but
> there is a very significant voltage drop across
> the resistor.  Since the rest of the circuit is
> capacitive, I find this rather implausible.