Cecil Moore wrote:
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.

Cecil,

My bad.

I forgot that rain drops and antenna wires are identical. The behavior
of two identical capacitors certainly covers all charge transfer phenomena.

8-)

73,
Gene
W4SZ