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Re: wire length



Original poster: "Jared E Dwarshuis" <jdwarshui-at-emich.edu> 

Our most recent experiment posted on the Web Ring strongly indicates
that height versus diameter of an inductor has no significant bearing
on the velocity of E.M. waves traversing its length. E.M. waves travel
down the wires of an inductor at, or very close to, the speed of light.
Arguments about straight wire versus wire wound in an inductor having
resonant differences are of no consequence as they mistakenly assume
that the velocity of E.M. waves are affected by the fields they create.
If you took a meter of wire and used it to charge up a capacitor with
an electric field and then waited an hour and took the same meter of
wire and use it to discharge the capacitor, you would not conclude that
the velocity of waves down the wire is a half of a meter an hour. Yet
that's the very same mistake made when one presupposes that E.M. fields
dictate E.M. velocity.