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Ludwik Kowalski wrote:
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> A very small current
> is always present in any electrostatic setup; right? Does it
> change distributions of E outside conductors significantly
> (with respect to an ideal distribution)? Probably not.
Saying "probably" sounds like a guess.
I _was_ going to say stop guessing, work it out.
But then I tried working it out myself. It's a nasty
tricky little problem to work out. So I'll just tell
you my approximate results. First of all, to keep things
from getting unreasonably complicated, I assumed that the
resistor paper was lying a distance L above a conducting
"ground plane". This gives me a definite capacitance per
unit area:.....