Re: Capacitor energy experiment

[David Rutherford <drutherford@SOFTCOM.NET>]

Bob LaMontagne wrote:
> For the capacitor, excluding mechanical deformation energy losses, etc., the
> energy is in the field - the electrons cannot store energy internally - they
> are point objects. Others on the list have calculated the thermal KE
> associated with the electrons themselves and it was  negligible compared to
> 1/2 CV^2.

I'm not interested in what list members may have calculated;
calculations cannot be used as evidence. Obviously the energy associated
with the heat dissipated by the resistor, during charging, is not
negligible, it is 1/2 CV^2 (I'm assuming it has actually been measured).

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