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Re: Ball Lightning
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To: tesla-at-grendel.objinc-dot-com
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Subject: Re: Ball Lightning
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From: "SROYS" <SROYS-at-radiology.ab.umd.edu>
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Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 13:16:19 EDT
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> The son of a friend of mine wants to do a research paper on lightning
> and particularly ball lightning. I have seen comments here in the
> past about making ball lightning using a tesla coil. Has anyone done
> this before?
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> If you have any sources for research material on this subject I would
> appreciate some help.
Re: lightning in general:
Martin Uman has a couple of books out on lightning. One is geared
more for intelligent children, and the other is a more scholarly (i.e. -
college level physics) treatment of lightning and lightning research. I
think the titles are "All About Lightning" and "Lightning" respectively.
They are both published by Dover Paperback Books and are under
$10. I have them both and they are both very interesting.
Re: ball lightning
The Corum's have written some papers on the production of ball
lightning with Tesla coils, and they also had an article in the TCBA
newsletter concerning this. I will get the specific TCBA reference for
you tonight.
Steven Roys (sroys-at-radiology.ab.umd.edu)