Lightning

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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.

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Title Statements

Full title :Lightning / Martin A. Uman.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1969

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Dover Publications
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1969

Notes

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

Includes indexes.

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Description:1 online resource (xiv, 298 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780486150956, 048615095X
oclc:ocn867771153
LC Classification:QC966
Dewey Decimal:551.5/63

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Preface; Table of Contents; 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 Strokes2.3.5 Subsequent Return Strokes; 2.3.6 Branch Components And M Components; 2.3.7 Miscellaneous; 2.4 Lightning Photography in The United States: 1933-1949; 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 Electromagnetics.

3.5 Field-measuring Appara…