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Old March 17th 07, 05:06 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
[email protected] n3ox.dan@gmail.com is offline
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Default What is displacement current?

If I'm not mistaken, which I could well be in this case, it's a
time-varying electric field that "looks like" a current, and an
electric field whose time derivative is constant "looks like" a
constant current, at least with respect to the magnetic field to which
it gives rise.


To get an electric field with a constant time derivative, you need an
electric field that is forever slewing linearly. You need to keep
piling electrons onto one plate of the capacitor forever. So, you're
right that a constant conduction current can give rise to a constant
displacement current, but in any real capacitor with a breakdown
voltage, you can't get this to happen for very long, so it doesn't
have much applicability in any real system, and wouldn't get talked
about too much.

Dan