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From: cdl@mplvax.EDU (Carl Lowenstein)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Meta HV Cap Fun!
Message-ID: <877@mplvax.EDU>
Date: 8 Jun 89 20:45:34 GMT
References: <682@uvicctr.UVic.ca.UUCP> <11170010@hpfcdj.HP.COM>
Reply-To: cdl@mplvax.ucsd.edu.UUCP (Carl Lowenstein)
Organization: U.C. San Diego, Marine Physical Laboratory
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In article <11170010@hpfcdj.HP.COM> myers@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Bob Myers) writes:
>>1) Is is possible to make such a circuit with zero effective inductance
>>assuming that the geometry of the circuit can be ideal?  

>Off the top of my head, I don't believe that this can be done.  Inductance
>results from the magnetic field induced around any current-carrying conductor;

As I remember, a few years ago somebody at Sandia Laboratories devised
a configuration which was essentially a current path on the 'two sides'
of a Moebius strip.  Interesting application of a somewhat obscure
mathematical contraption.
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	carl lowenstein		marine physical lab	u.c. san diego
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