RESISTANCE AS DISSIPATION INTO MANY REACTIVE CIRCUITS. LANDAU DAMPING AND NYQUIST'S NOISE THEOREM
Abstract
Non-radiative dissipation, such as friction and ohmic resistance, is not a loss of energy but its dispersal into a large number of degrees of freedom. irreversibility is the improbability of reconcentration of energy into its inital ordered form. one would therefore expect a network of very many undamped resonating circuits to exhibit resistive properties in its transient response. indeed, it should be possible to simulate resistances by such purely reactive elements, in close analogy with the physical process of ohmic heating, i.e., conversion of electrical energy into molecular and lattice vibrations. (in a closed, non-radiating system these are undamped.)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 23, 1960
- Accession Number
- AD0250248
Entities
People
- O. Buneman
Organizations
- Stanford University