Dave 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.


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?


Nope.
73,
Tom Donaly, KA6RUH

Tom Donaly wrote:
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?

Nope.

But that wasn't the correct question. Given two identical dipole
elements connected by a link coupling, does the charge on each
element equalize with the other?
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp