Re: There's work, and then there's work

[Hugh Haskell <hhaskell@MINDSPRING.COM>]

At 17:20 -0800 2/2/03, David Rutherford wrote:
> If this is true, doesn't it imply that, when the capacitor is
> discharged, only half of the energy stored on the capacitor will be
> dissipated as heat in the resistor, therefore, the calorimeter
> experiment would only give _half_ of the energy stored on the capacitor?
Assuming that the author of the quote you cite means what he appears
to have said (which I doubt), do you have a suggestion for a home for
the half of the energy that appears, by this statement, to be missing?

Hugh
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