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On the potential energy in an electrostatically bound two-body system

General Physics 2015-01-23 v1

Abstract

The potential energy problem in an electrostatically bound two-body system is studied in the framework of a recently proposed impact model of the electrostatic force and in analogy to the potential energy in a gravitationally bound system. The physical processes are described that result in the variation of the potential energy as a function of the distance between the charged bodies. The energy is extracted from distributions of hypothetical interaction entities modified by the charged bodies.

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@article{arxiv.1501.05615,
  title  = {On the potential energy in an electrostatically bound two-body system},
  author = {K. Wilhelm and B. N. Dwivedi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.05615},
  year   = {2015}
}

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5 pages, 2 figures

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