Capacitor C/Peek

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Subject: Capacitor C/Peek
From: pierson-at-msd26.enet.dec-dot-com
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 96 20:54:06 EDT
Cc: pierson-at-msd26.enet.dec-dot-com


I was pondering something exceedingly basic, and getting phunny numbers.
Specifically, what energy is in the cap in the primary tank?

I keep getting a number which seems small, someone check my math:


	Joules == watt-seconds == (C(Ve2))/2

right?

	C= 0.025 uFd (for the CP caps, just to pick a number...
	V=10,000 V (to pick another)

Rolling this together:
	((2.5)*(10e-8)*(10e4)e2))/2= 1.25 Joules

Izzat right?
I was expecting a larger number....
Am i dropping a decimal somewhere???

==============================
As to Peeks' Tables and his book.  I have a copy (olde) of the book,  If anyone
wants to figger out how to get it reprinted...  (HV Press?  That reprint shoppe
in the midwest i can't think of the name of?)

HOWEVER, much of Peeks' results were reported in papers before the (then)
AIEE (now IEEE), so a good library might have the relavant AIEE (IEEE)
transactions.  Peek was studying lighting effects, so his work did extend up to
'coilish' frequencies.

	regards
	dwp