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Electric Onion
The circuit in the Displacement Current diagram is shown wrapped up into a ball. Instead of the current flowing in one dimension (through the wires), it now flows in three dimensions. The discharging capacitor is labeled Co in this drawing.
The red sphere is the 'top' plate of the left capacitor in the Displacement Current drawing. The pink sphere is the top plate of the right capacitor. The dark gray region between represents the resistor and the blue surfaces represent the bottom plates of the capacitors.
Current flows radially through the resistor, R and around the blue surface from the north pole to the south pole. The displacement current flows radially outward through the capacitors.
The Poynting vector field flows from inside Co (out through the hole at the bottom) and into R and C.
Electric Onion
The circuit in the Displacement Current diagram is shown wrapped up into a ball. Instead of the current flowing in one dimension (through the wires), it now flows in three dimensions. The discharging capacitor is labeled Co in this drawing.
The red sphere is the 'top' plate of the left capacitor in the Displacement Current drawing. The pink sphere is the top plate of the right capacitor. The dark gray region between represents the resistor and the blue surfaces represent the bottom plates of the capacitors.
Current flows radially through the resistor, R and around the blue surface from the north pole to the south pole. The displacement current flows radially outward through the capacitors.
The Poynting vector field flows from inside Co (out through the hole at the bottom) and into R and C.