scholarly journals On the electrostatic energy of two point charges

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
A.C. Tort

The electrostatic field energy due to two fixed point-like charges shows some peculiar features concerning the distribution in space of the field energy density of the system. Here we discuss the evaluation of the field energy and the mathematical details that lead to those peculiar and non-intuitive physical features.

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (10) ◽  
pp. 86-1-86-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Hnat ◽  
S. C. Chapman ◽  
G. Rowlands ◽  
N. W. Watkins ◽  
W. M. Farrell

Author(s):  
G. Kasotakis ◽  
E.T. Sarris ◽  
P. Marhavilas ◽  
N. Sidiropoulos ◽  
P. Trochoutsos ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Y. Balytskyi ◽  
D. Hoyer ◽  
A. O. Pinchuk ◽  
L. L. Williams

Abstract Novel parameterizations are presented for monopole solutions to the static, spherically-symmetric vacuum field equations of five-dimensional general relativity. First proposed by Kaluza, 5D general relativity unites gravity and classical electromagnetism with a scalar field. These monopoles correspond to bodies carrying mass, electric charge, and scalar charge. The new parameterizations provide physical insight into the nature of electric charge and scalar field energy. The Reissner-Nordstr\"om limit is compared with alternate physical interpretations of the solution parameters. The new parameterizations explore the role of scalar field energy and the relation of electric charge to scalar charge. The Kaluza vacuum equations imply the scalar field energy density is the negative of the electric field energy density for all known solutions, so the total electric and scalar field energy of the monopole is zero. The vanishing of the total electric and scalar field energy density for vacuum solutions seems to imply the scalar field can be understood as a negative-energy foundation on which the electric field is built.


2005 ◽  
Vol 889 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baojin Chu ◽  
Xin Zhou ◽  
Bret Neese ◽  
Q. M. Zhang

ABSTRACTRecently, PVDF-TrFE-CFE terpolymer was developed in Penn State University. The polymer exhibits relaxor ferroelectric behavior. At room temperature, the low-field dielectric constant can be as high as 50-60, more than ten times larger than other dielectric polymer materials, such as Polypropylene, the most widely-used polymer materials for capacitor applications. Due to the large change of electric field induced polarization and high breakdown field, energy density of the terpolymer can reach ∼10 J/cm3, much larger than other polymer materials. In this paper, experimental results on energy density and non-linear dielectric behavior of the terpolymer will be reported.


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