Ball Lightning A Popular Guide to a Longstanding Mystery in Atmospheric Electricity /
Ball lightning is an enigma. These luminous objects that appear occasionally during thunderstorms and can reach several meters in diameter have been a mystery to science for about 200 years. Despite several thousands of reported observations, their nature is still unknown. In this book, well documen...
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Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2019.
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Έκδοση: | 1st ed. 2019. |
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Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Introduction
- Ball Lightning: Observers' Tales
- The Search for Photographic Evidence
- A Bit of Philosophy, or What Has a Razor to Do with Ball Lightning?
- Organizing and Analyzing the Observations
- Electrical Discharges, Coronas, and Streamers
- Thunderstorms and Lightning
- BL: Well Documented Cases of Copious Production
- The Link Between Lightning Physics and Ball Lightning
- Some People Just Won't Believe It: The Skeptic's View
- Ball Lightning Theories
- BL Experiments
- Wrapping It All Up
- Appendix
- References.