On Feb 15, 1:45*am, Pentcho Valev wrote:
http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teachin...es/node44.html
"However, in experiments in which a capacitor is submerged in a
dielectric liquid the force per unit area exerted by one plate on
another is observed to decrease... (...) This apparent paradox can be
explained by taking into account the difference in liquid pressure in
the field filled space between the plates and the field free region
outside the capacitor."

The pressure difference will constantly pump water through a small
hole punched in one of the plates, in violation of the second law of
thermodynamics. More effects produced by the mysterious pressure
emerging between the plates are shown here (but the author does not
consider the pressure as a non-conservative force doing work at the
expense of heat absorbed from the surroundings, which misleads him
into believing that the law of energy conservation is violated):

http://energythic.com/view.php?node=208
"...force that creates a pressure-difference at the edge of a flat
capacitor when merged into a liquid dielectric, and pushes up a liquid
column between the plates..."

Pentcho Valev




Idiot