Gene Fuller wrote:

Cecil Moore wrote:
Try looking in any basic physics text. I believe you will find
discussion of electrostatic forces, equipotential surfaces, fields,
and Gauss' law. It is doubtful that you will find any technical
description of charge equalization.


On the contrary, my DC circuits book has an example of the
charges on two identical capacitors equalizing when they
are paralleled.

If I cause 10 coulombs of charge to be on a 10 meter long wire, do I not have a
uniform charge distribution of 1 coulomb per meter on the wire, under dc steady
state conditions? Isn't this required for any equipotential surface?