Recent content by MP1021

Thanks for your responses andrewkirk and Baluncore. You've both identified that there is a tradeoff between field gradient and distance, with the result of an increase in one compensating for the decrease of the other, which does make sense to me on the scale of the cartoon I drew. It was still...

I am trying to wrap my head around something and would be grateful for some insight. Specifically, why the different electric fields along different paths to different areas of an irregularly shaped conductor don't impart different energies to inflowing particles. Say we have a negatively...