Universal Aspects

When a capacitor is charging you can put a ammeter on the input and on the output and see a current.

Typically that means charged matter particles are moving through the circuit element.

In the case of the capacitor, the energy that makes the particles move through the capacitor is stored separately in the field from the charged particles which are just passing through.
Bill implied that charges dont accumulate in a capacitor. You should be able to weigh a capacitor and see it get heavier as it "fills up" if it stores charges.
But the case is actually different than that in that there have been reported weight losses from charged capacitors...

Here is the interesting thing......

The charges pass through the capacitor being pushed by the energy of motion, and an equivalent amount of energy is stored if the field for when you discharge the capacitor..
 So the amount of energy in play is actually double what the measured current is?

And the field is either a storage place(another layer which I dont like) for kinetic energy(energy that makes the charged particles move - energy of motion) or it IS kinetic energy...

As I said about electricity before, its just a convenient way to transfer kinetic energy - it transfers momentum from a spinning rotor across a gap with a magnetic field, into the windings of the stator to make the electrons move down the wire to your house, from the hydro station to the consumer.

Electricity is just kinetic energy applied to charged particles... Thats it.

I have been testing everything that I can think of in terms of "its all kinetic energy" and so far it all works.
Every kind of field or force or energy can be converted into kinetic energy and analyzed in this fashion so that you have common units.

The capacitor as well stores the energy of motion in it field..  So how does it do that? The field must be structured is some way. And it must be oscillating because of the motion part. And so when you create a path using wire, it releases that energy.

SO how does it know to start discharging if you connect a very long wire to the capacitor?


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