Revisiting the electric potential

Revisiting Matrix Theory and Electric Circuit Analysis

Matrix Theory has long been applied to many branches of engineering. However, numerical difficulties have limited access to students, especially at the elementary level. This limitation has partially been removed with the development of canned software and modern scientific calculators which operate matrices. However, the approach with matrices ignores this and still follows traditional ways. T...

Revisiting the argument from fetal potential

One of the most famous, and most derided, arguments against the morality of abortion is the argument from potential, which maintains that the fetus' potential to become a person and enjoy the valuable life common to persons, entails that its destruction is prima facie morally impermissible. In this paper, I will revisit and offer a defense of the argument from potential.First, I will criticize ...

Electron Heating by the Cross-shock Electric Potential Electron Heating by the Cross-shock Electric Potential

Electrons can experience super-adiabatic heating at a collisionless shock due to the presence of a cross-shock electric potential. This heating can greatly exceed the temperature rise associated with the conservation of the magnetic moment of the electrons as they move into the stronger magnetic eld downstream of the shock. The criterion for the onset of super-adiabatic heating and the eeects o...

Stress Fields and Electric Potential in Piezoelectric Cylinders

Stress Fields and Electric Potential in Piezoelectric Cylinders