Lightning

"Complete and comprehensive, this text for advanced undergraduates in physics and engineering features exceptional clarity and minimum of mathematic notation. The expert and up-to-date treatment covers lightning phenomena and terminology, lightning photography, lightning spectroscopy, electrical and magnetic field measurements and current measurements, and more. Five appendixes. 140 figures and tables." -- Publisher.

Originally published: New York : McGraw-Hill, 1969.

Includes indexes.

Chapter 1 Introduction to Lightning -- 1.1 Lightning and Thunderclouds -- 1.2 The Stepped Leader -- 1.3 The Return Stroke -- 1.4 The Dart Leader -- 1.5 More on Strokes and Flashes -- 1.6 Intracloud Discharges -- 1.7 Strokes Bringing Positive Charge to Earth -- 1.8 Strokes with Upward-developing Leaders -- 1.9 Other Lightning Forms -- References -- Chapter 2 Lightning Photography -- 2.1 Early Studies -- 2.2 The Boys Camera -- 2.3 The South African Work -- 2.3.1 Introduction -- 2.3.2 The stepped leader -- 2.3.3 Dart and dart-stepped leaders -- 2.3.4 First return strokes -- 2.3.5 Subsequent return strokes -- 2.3.6 Branch components and M components -- 2.3.7 Miscellaneous -- 2.4 Lightning Photography in the United States -- 2.4.1 Introduction -- 2.4.2 The Empire State Building study -- 2.4.3 The Pittsfield study -- 2.5 Recent Studies -- 2.5.1 Introduction -- 2.5.2 Lightning photography in Arizona -- 2.5.3 Lightning photography in New Mexico -- 2.5.4 Lightning photography in Switzerland -- References -- Chapter 3 Electric and Magnetic Field Measurements -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Electrostatics -- 3.3 Magnetostatics -- 3.4 Electromagnetlcs -- 3.5 Field-measuring Apparatus -- 3.5.1 Elec…