On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Chuck Counselman wrote:
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> (1) If the conductor is perfect, then wave propagation along it is at
> the speed of light in vacuuo.
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> Best regards -Chuck.
The steatment about the speed of wave along a perfect conductor is not
true. Pocklington (18..) wrote that for a perfectly conducting and
infinitely long wire the speed of electromagnetic wave along athe wire
has gone to the speed of lights only if the wire radius has gone to
zero. I get from above that the speed of EM wave along wires is less
than the speed of lights in free space because of an nonzero radius
and not because of ends phenomena.
With infinitely :-))
Maciek Walkowiak
Received on Wed Jun 17 1998 - 09:41:13 EDT
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