Re: Parallel and Series LCR Circuit Qs

["Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz" <acmq-at-compuland-dot-com.br> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

Tesla list wrote:
 
> Original poster: Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>

> One may be able to glean clues from brush discharges which really are just
> forked streamers at high speed.  In my CW coil impedance experiment, I
> thought that the streamers were just looking for uncharged space.  In other
> words, the potential is trying to look for lower voltage regions and the
> streamers just naturally fan out in different paths as the present one gets
> charged.  Ideally, I think you would just get a even glow around the
> terminal but the streamers tend to make hot channels in the form or arcs
> much as natural rivers and streams do.  But the fanning effect is still
> there.  I think if you trickle water down a sheet of glass or look at
> streams on the sides of mountains, there is an analogy there...

The analogy to rivers is perfect. Minor irregularities in the path of
the "electron river" are enhanced by the formation of the channel.
Maybe Nature just likes chaotic systems. What would be the reason to
expect straight spark channels, if this is rarely seen in similar
natural phenomena? 

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz