Re: Variable Capacitance and Inductance

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Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "David Thomson by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dave-at-volantis-dot-org>
> 
> Hi Dave,
> 
> >> also be referring to some kind of photoelectric effect (i.e. sun heating
> 
>         Heating is not generally considered a 'photoelectric'   effect.
> 
> That is correct, but radiation heating is technically a photoelectric effect
> nonetheless.  Anything that emits or absorbs photons is part of the
> photoelectric process.  

	That's a new one and certainly not generally recognized.  The
photoelectric effect refers to the emission of electrons from a surface
as the result of absorption of photons.  There are some neat
descriptions of the effect on the web.  Just try a Google search on
"photoelectric".

> And indeed, electricity is transmitted through heat
> just as it is with radio waves, visible light, X-rays, and gamma rays.

	That's another new one.  Examples?

> > It would still be worthwhile to electrostatically shield a
> > capacity and measure the effect of a magnetic field upon it.
> 
>         Check NIST papers,  Likely been done.
> 
> You're right I should check NIST.

	Please do.

Ed