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Re: [TCML] Capacitor Conundrum



Phil,

I've seen the dissected capacitor demonstrated very impressively at Ed Wingate's Teslathon. His uses flat metal plates, and a thin sheet of mylar as the dielectric. You can pick up the mylar sheet, and if you run your fingers along the sides, you can feel a static charge. Because the sheet is an insulator, it would be unlikely that you would totally discharge it by touching a small portion of it.
Dave
If the charge is stored on the surface of the dielectric, then why does freely handling it not discharge it? Or is the experimenter assumed to be of low capacitance and well-isolated? Might dielectric relaxation play a part in this as well? -Phil LaBudde
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