Charging Capacitors According to Maxwell's Equations: Impossible
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⚛️ physics.gen-ph
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capacitorboundarychargingconditionsequationsmaxwellaccordingapplied
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The charge of an ideal parallel capacitor leads to the resolution of the wave equation for the electric field with prescribed initial conditions and boundary constraints. Independently of the capacitor's shape and the applied voltage, none of the corresponding solutions is compatible with the full set of Maxwell's equations. The paradoxical situation persists even by weakening boundary conditions, resulting in the impossibility to describe a trivial phenomenon such as the capacitor's charging process, by means of the standard Maxwellian theory.
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