> Once the wire is not straight then everything changes.
? agreed
>If you insert a capacitor between the ends you do have a loop.
>The current flowing thru the capacitor produces a magnetic field as well.
> And the voltage induced in the loop, so called back EMF, is
>proportional to the rate of change of the magnetic field traveling
perpendicular to he
>surface formed by the loop. One of Maxwell's, the equations.
>It is this EMF formed in the loop generated by the changing magnetic field
>generated by the current in the loop that creates this self inductance.
? Well put.
> Speaking of capacitors, trying to find out if a magnetic field was
>created in the virtual current within a dielectric of a capacitor led
>Hertz to discover electro-magentic radiation in the form of radio
>waves.
>
? yea, verily. I use a Hertz antenna on 40m. Feed Z is a couple of
k-ohms. I match it to 50-ohms with an L-network.
> ...
cheers
- R. L. Measures, a.k.a. Rich..., 805.386.3734,AG6K,
www.vcnet.com/measures.
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