You are welcome. I was thinking it might open up new avenues of thought on the ballbearing motor.
Harry ----- Original Message ----- From: Michel Jullian <[email protected]> Date: Monday, September 14, 2009 5:50 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:The Electric Field Outside a Stationary Resistive Wire Carrying a Constant Current > Haven't read beyond their derivations of 1/ the force due to the > charges induced in the wire by the test charge and 2/ the force > proportional to the current in the resistive wire, but these two are > clearly real, whether the formulae they propose are correct or not. > > The first one doesn't deserve much comment, it is elementary > electrostatics. > The second is more subtle, it is due to a surface distribution of > charges which doesn't require the presence of external charges, whose > existence I simply had no idea and which I now realize have to be > there. > > Thanks for posting this Harry, most enlightening. It might even have > relevance to the Celani electromigration experiments wrt my DIESECF > hypothesis for cold fusion! > > Michel > > 2009/9/14 Harry Veeder <[email protected]>: > > fyi > > Harry > > > > Foundations of Physics > > © Plenum Publishing Corporation 1999 > > 10.1023/A:1018874523513 > > > > The Electric Field Outside a Stationary Resistive Wire Carrying a > > Constant Current > > > > A. K. T. Assis, W. A. Rodrigues Jr. and A. J. Mania > > > > Abstract We present the opinion of some authors who believe > there is no > > force between a stationary charge and a stationary resistive wire > > carrying a constant current. We show that this force is different > from> zero and present its main components: the force due to the > charges> induced in the wire by the test charge and a force > proportional to the > > current in the resistive wire. We also discuss briefly a > component of > > the force proportional to the square of the current which should > exist> according to some models and another component due to the > acceleration> of the conduction electrons in a curved wire carrying > a dc current > > (centripetal acceleration). Finally, we analyze experiments > showing the > > existence of the electric field proportional to the current in > resistive> wires. > > > > complete paper available here: > > http://www.springerlink.com/content/q6634pp556m08500/fulltext.html > > > > > >
