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Re: Capacitor charge, were is it?
On 10/30/96 00:25:11 you wrote:
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>>From sroys@umabnet.ab.umd.eduTue Oct 29 22:42:20 1996
>Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 09:29:03 -0500 (EST)
>From: Steve Roys <sroys@umabnet.ab.umd.edu>
>To: tesla@pupman.com
>Subject: Re: Capacitor charge, were is it?
>
>On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Tesla List wrote:
>
>> The vacuum diode conducts in one direction only because the plate is
charged
>> positively and the electrons are charged negatively. If the vacuum were
not
>> a conductor, no electrons would flow in either direction. Make sense?
>>
>> Phil
>
>A vacuum diode passes charge when the heated cathode boils electrons off
>and they are drawn towards the anode. If you turn the filament off, the
>vacuum diode stops conducting and becomes a vacuum capacitor.
>
>Steve Roys
>
>
Makes sense to me. But the vacuum is still a conductor of electrons when
the electrons are freed from the cathode.
Phil
Phil Gantt (pgantt@ix.netcom.com)
http://www.netcom.com/~pgantt/intro.html