Michael A. Terrell said:
They're right next to the flux capacitors, you silly boy! ;-)
Hummm... a resistor has V = I*R, while a capacitor has V = integral I*C
dt. So a flux capacitor has Phi on one side or the other.
Now, a reluctance has MMF = Phi * scriptR (a "flux resistor"), so a flux
capacitor should have MMF = integral Phi*C dt.
Now, in flux, it turns out that reluctance is conservative, so its phase
shift should be unconservative (i.e., lossy). In other words, the
imaginary component of permeability mu'', or epsilon'' for permittivity.
Interestingly, this means there is no such thing as a flux inductor
(barring active devices with an external power source), because it would
have negative loss, i.e. instead of consuming power, it would generate
power, like the fabled negative resistor.
In conclusion: a flux capacitor is just a hunk of steel (lots of eddy and
hysteresis loss). ;-)
Tim