Re: Electrostatic Induction

"Don Kelly" <dhky@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Vince Morgan" <vinharAtHereoptusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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As for your oscillating charged body - why do you think that this will
produce a current in the wire? --

Hi Don,
As an experiement I recently made a flat plate capacitor
from and old cd and aluminium foil. Passing a mildly statically charged
plastic tube (bic pen body) back and forth over the upper capacitor plate
induced an AC flow through an air cored inductor connected in series to the
plates. There is no exchange of energy as the pen's static charge decayed
(apparently) as it would at rest on an insulated surface. I believe the
source of the energy is the field ascociated with the charge on the pen,
which if insulated sufficiently should decay at a rate that has little
relationship, if any at all, to it's deployment.

From what little I do know of the science of electrostatics, I believed that
my result was to be expected.
A charged body will induce a charge seperation on a metal object, some field
lines from the charged body will fall on those sepperated charges and in
doing so create an electrical potential.

Perhaps I am misunderstanding something here. That wouldn't be anything new
;)
Highest regards,
Vince Morgan


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