Re: Terry's Test - Two Manifestations of Charge

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Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi,

I did not mean to cause confusion...

Kirchhoff's current law is a very simplified version of Gauss's law and the 
conservation of charge in the DC case.  I was just trying to keep it simple 
so the basic effect could be understood by All.

But as I stated before, the bright current going from the tube tip to the 
grounded wire is the sum of the current from the toroid to the tip and the 
current being picked up along the tube due to displacement currents.

To be rigorous, the sum of the currents could be a little unequal as the 
charge on the tip changes.  The charge could vary some on the tip and thus 
the current sum could vary a little bit via Gausses law...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Kirchhoff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%27s_law

Kirchhoff's circuit laws: This is a pair of rules (common in electrical 
engineering) to analyze electric circuits, which can be derived from 
Maxwell's equations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_equations

Of course, common electrical engineering courses can be found on-line here:

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/index.htm#Undergraduate

6.002  Circuits and Electronics, Fall 2000

6.630  Electromagnetic Theory, Fall 2002

Cheers,

        Terry




At 09:57 AM 7/5/2005, you wrote:
> Terry,
>
> Can you tell exactly where and how Kirchhoff's current law applies to this 
> circuit?
>
> Stork
>
> > So far, the effect seems to be very simply Ampere's law with Maxwell's 
> > displacement currents and  Kirchhoff's current law here on page 6 of the 
> > circuit theory book.  I never could have spelled Kirchhoff myself ;-))
> > Cheers,
> >     Terry