Thursday, July 14, 2005
electrostatic thoughts
a capacitor stores electricity staticly
there is an experiment that shows that it is the dielectric (insulating material) that holds the charge
so I was thinking that if you take a capacitor that has nothing for a dielectric the dielectric is space, if you move a capacitor, it will not loose the charge, does the space move with the capacitor?
I am going to test the idea that this electrostatic charge might have inertia.
I am going to make 2 tests.
the first will use a disk capacitor, that is spinning, I will try and detect a charge on a motionless capacitor that is lined up with the spinning one.
the next test is to have a segmented disk capacitor that has each plate spinning in the opposite direction, and test for a spinning charge being sent out. I think the speed of the spinning will make a difference if they are spinning at exact opposite speed or if the speeds do not match.
this idea is from previous experiments.
any ideas? anyone want to try it?
there is an experiment that shows that it is the dielectric (insulating material) that holds the charge
so I was thinking that if you take a capacitor that has nothing for a dielectric the dielectric is space, if you move a capacitor, it will not loose the charge, does the space move with the capacitor?
I am going to test the idea that this electrostatic charge might have inertia.
I am going to make 2 tests.
the first will use a disk capacitor, that is spinning, I will try and detect a charge on a motionless capacitor that is lined up with the spinning one.
the next test is to have a segmented disk capacitor that has each plate spinning in the opposite direction, and test for a spinning charge being sent out. I think the speed of the spinning will make a difference if they are spinning at exact opposite speed or if the speeds do not match.
this idea is from previous experiments.
any ideas? anyone want to try it?
# posted by space @ 6:59 AM 
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I can see how you would think there was an electric charge on them, but there is no noticable electric charge for them, that is unless you download them from the wrong place.
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