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"Closed-loop" analysis of a thermo-charged capacitor
In this Letter, an explicit application of conservation of energy and zero
net work principle around a closed path ("closed-loop" analysis) is carried out
on a thermo-charged capacitor at equilibrium with ambient heat at uniform
temperature. This analysis corroborates the results of previous studies
[Phys.Lett.A 374 (2010) 1801, Physica A 390 (2011) 481] that a potential drop
does actually occur at capacitor terminals. Finally, a conventional
photoelectric emission experiment is proposed to indirectly text thermo-charged
capacitor functioning.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures. Typos corrected. One section adde