Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!cbnewsc!edw
From: edw@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (edwindes)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: A violation of the law of conservation of energy
Keywords: paradox
Message-ID: <3552@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 29 Sep 89 18:29:13 GMT
References: <1049@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk>
Reply-To: edw@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (edwindes)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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+--- dwns@doc.ic.ac.uk (David W N Sharp) writes:
|Some recent articles explained that if you connect a battery to an uncharged
|cap. using wires of zero resistance then some electromagnetic radiation is
|emitted ( which you can hear as a click on a nearby radio) and thus the energy
|finally stored in the capacitor is less than that given out by the battery.
|
|A follow up article pointed out that energy is also lost when a mechanical
|clutch is used to connect a rotating wheel to a stationary one. Supposing
|that inertial radiation was emitted (in addition to heat) ... what device
|would one use to detect this radiation ?
|
|
|David Sharp (dwns@uk.ac.ic.doc)           

Your ear.