Re: Just One Pop

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• Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 09:15:39 -0500
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Subject: Re: Just One Pop
  Date:  Thu, 15 May 1997 00:48:44 -0400 (EDT)
  From:  richard hull <rhull-at-richmond.infi-dot-net>
    To:  Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>


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>damped oscillations of a single "pop". Very shortly after their
>creation, the greater mobility of electrons makes them diffuse more
>rapidly than the positive ions... resulting in  a redistribution of
>space charge that is positive close to the toroid, and negative as we
>move away from the toroid (so-called ambipolar diffusion). 
>
>The only problem with this scenario is that if the outer region of
>charge were more negative, it should induce a positive swing in the
>remote electrometer, not a negative one if only electrostatic induction
>was at work. Nothing is ever simple, is it! 
>
>-- Bert H --
>
>Bert,

Yep, it'll drive you nuts trying to form a theory around what you see
sometimes.  Several things fit great but one key element is missing or
unseen and fouls you mechanism for explanation.  Keep up the
cogitatin'!   I
know I will,too.

Richard Hull, TCBOR

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