Re: [TCML] Capacitor Conundrum

[FIFTYGUY@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 8/22/08 5:15:11 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
electrotherapy@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

>When the jar is charged with a high voltage and carefully  dismantled, it is 
discovered that all the 
>parts may be freely handled without discharging the jar.  


> The transfer of charge to the dielectric in the above  experiment results 
from the high voltages 
>present when the conductors are separated from the dielectric,  which 
redeposits charge onto the 
>surface of the dielectric by means of a corona discharge at the  edges of 
the plates as they slide 
>along the dielectric during the  disassembly.


    If the charge is stored on the surface of the  dielectric, then why does 
freely handling it not discharge it? Or is the  experimenter assumed to be of 
low capacitance and well-isolated?
 
    Might dielectric relaxation play a part in this as  well?
 
-Phil LaBudde

Center for the Advanced Study of Ballistic  Improbabilities



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