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Re: Why does electrostatic attraction in water decrease?



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From: "John S. Denker" <jsd@MONMOUTH.COM>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 12:31 PM
Subject: Re: Why does electrostatic attraction in water decrease?
2) It's silly to emphasize the long-range effects of the charged
objects without discussing the equally-long-range effects of the
displacement charges within the dielectric.

To this, Panofsky says that the effects of the dielectric field (modelled
by the fields of equal and opposite bound surface charges) on each
capacitor plate cancel.

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