Consistent Electrostatics of Crystalline Conductors

Abstract

In a recent report, we drew attention to the paradoxical inconsistency of classical electrostatics with the model of a crystalline conductor. There are different ways to avoid this inconsistency. Mostly, they rely on physical ad hoc assumptions associated with the introduction of additional constants and models of charged liquids. In this report, we suggest another approach, which does not require the introduction of any additional physical constants. The proposed theory includes classical electrostatics as a special case.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2018
Accession Number
AD1059807

Entities

People

  • Michael A. Michael A. Grinfeld
  • Pavel Grinfeld
  • Steven B. Segletes

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Value Problems
  • Charge Density
  • Electric Charge
  • Electricity
  • Electrostatic Fields
  • Electrostatics
  • Equations
  • Geometry
  • Layers
  • Materials
  • Mathematical Analysis
  • Military Research
  • Poisson Equation
  • Standards
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

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