ARL-TR-8365 - Toward Paradoxical Inconsistency in Electrostatics of Metallic Conductors | U.S. Army Research Laboratory

摘要

Current developments show a clear trend toward more serious efforts in validation and verification (V&V) of physical and engineering models. Naturally, when dealing with fundamental problems, the V&V effort should include careful exploration and, if necessary, revision of the fundamentals underlying the physics. With this understanding in mind, we review some fundamentals of the models of crystalline electric conductors and find a significant inconsistency in applying classicalelectrostatics to these sorts of substances. In this report, we formulate this inconsistency in the form of a novel paradox in electrostatics of metallic conductors.