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View SchemaHidden Momentum in a Coaxial Cable
| Authors | Kirk T. McDonald |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0312028 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0312028 |
Abstract
As an illustration of the concept of "hidden" mechanical momentum, we consider a coaxial cable one end of which is connected to a battery and the other to a load resistor. The nonzero electromagnetic momentum of this configuration is balanced by the slight difference in the mechanical momenta of the conduction electrons in the inner and outer conductors.
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