Airship Reports

Slavek Krepelka ( slavek.krepelka@sympatico.ca )
Tue, 04 Jan 2000 19:15:34 -0500

Hi all,
correct me if I am wrong, but is not an isotropic capacity a mono-pole
capacitor. If you charge a metal sphere the lines of electric flux
extending
outwards to infinity, effectively acting as a bi-polar capacitor. I
think it
is 0.55 cm diameter sphere is equal to 1pF. This type of capacitor is
used
on tesla coils, the sphere on top of the secondary winding acts as the
capacity of the resonant circuit.

Gavin

Hello Gavin.

Not Quite. The difference lies in the fact that your sphere has it
polarity ballanced by the ground or another ball. These two interact
within the environment of atmosphere and ground. In Joe Hiding's or my
ball, the inner pole is insulated from the environment by the outer
pole. This should bring some imbalance into the environment and could do
something "weird".

Regards Slavek.

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