Re: [Phys-l] Excerpt from Kip's intro to the millennial ed.

[John Denker <jsd@av8n.com>]

On 10/18/2011 02:56 PM, Bernard Cleyet wrote:

> > This error was the subject of a thread a few years ago.  IIRC, JD
> > argued that the ungrounded cage (shell) would "hide" the distribution
> > of the charge, and, therefore, no error.

Hmmm.  That's not how the archives remember it.
  https://carnot.physics.buffalo.edu/archives/2002/02_2002/msg00291.html

> > bc  's memory NOT infallible.

... which is a good reason to look in the archives before going
too far out on a limb.  The archives are easily searchable.

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