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Re: Capacitor charge, were is it?

>Message-ID: <199611120621.XAA07078-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>
>Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 23:21:32 -0700
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>Subject: Re: Capacitor charge, were is it?
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>> Subject: Re: Capacitor charge, were is it?
>
>From hullr-at-whitlock-dot-comMon Nov 11 23:11:19 1996
>Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 15:45:54 -0800
>From: Richard Hull <hullr-at-whitlock-dot-com>
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Re: Capacitor charge, were is it?

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>> Richard,
>> 
>> What is the mass of a photon? 
>
> You ever weigh one peronally? R. Hull


   The photon travels AT the speed of light so its mass must be
   exactly zero.  If it had any mass at all then relativity would blow
   it up to infinite mass.


> >Do not photons exert force and convey energy?
>
>  As we define them, yes.  R. Hull
>


   Do an altavista.digital-dot-com simple search on "radiation pressure". 
   Don't forget the quotes.  Interesting stuff. 


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> >Do not electrons exhibit constant acceleration in their orbits around 
>nuclei?
>
>Yes and what a piece of magic this is to receive no natural input energy 
>and continuously accelerate forever and a day!  (free energy anyone?) 
>another marvel of man's twisted logic.  It is all explained well by what 
>I consider totally bogus theory.  R. Hull
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

   Bogus??!  Totally??  I can't believe you said that!  A little
   clarification of the math would fix that.  Perhaps also some
   semantics....

     Yes,   F = Ma  but F and a are VECTOR quantities whereas M is scalar.

     Therefore, 

  >>> ACCELERATION DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY MEAN A CHANGE IN ENERGY. <<<

   Acceleration is a change in _velocity_.  This means a change in the
   direction or the magnitude of an object's motion, or both.     The
   energy of an object depends on the **magnitude** of the velocity
   and NOT the direction. If ONLY the direction is changed, the energy
   is NOT changed.  Also, the force must be in the direction of
   movement in order for any work to be done.  But with any circularly
   orbitting object, the force of attraction is ALWAYS and CONSTANTLY
   at right angles to the motion.  The energy of an object depends on
   the **magnitude** of the velocity and NOT the direction.  Although
   velocity vectors can be negative, this isn't true of energy.

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