Re: static electricity

eric reed ( (no email) )
Sun, 23 May 1999 03:29:47 GMT

yes your right Jeff, if you have a mass ( that has a charge on it) that has
let say some points on it, the electric field will be more concintrated at
those areas due to the small radius relative to the mass as a whole, the
charges collecting at those points are closer together and being in closer
together produce a higher degree of electric field at those points, hence
why lighting preffers to stike metal points........

>From: "Jim Shaffer, Jr." <jshaffer@csrlink.net>
>To: <interact@Keelynet.com>
>Subject: Re: static electricity
>Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 23:13:19 -0400
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> > Note only the tips of the blade
> >glow ! which almost points to a centrifugal effect like David Hamil
>quotes
> >as occurring with his design
>
>Not really. The tips have the greatest linear velocity. More to the
>point, if
>I'm not mistaken, an electric field is strongest off a pointed surface.
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