RE: Side-wise Vectors?????

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Original poster: "Daniel A. Kline" <daniel_kline-at-med.unc.edu> 



 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
 > Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 9:55 PM
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 > Subject: Re: Side-wise Vectors?????
 > >
 > >I suspect that the powerful magnetic field is having zero
 > effect on the
 > >streamers.
 > >
 > >Lest we make Karl Gauss mad :o)
 > >
 > >Yep!!  The magnetic field is not causing the repulsion.  It
 > is just plain
 > >old electrostatics at work.

As far as corkscrewing is concerned, my opinion is that it's just very
localized air-compression deflecting the arc-channel.

If I could propel a BB or piece of buckshot through water at a
more-or-less constant velocity, the locally-compressed water directly in
the front of the pellet would cause deflection, and the object would
corkscrew through the water.

I've seen the effect many times while rapidly reeling in a fishing-line,
and sometimes when spearfishing. (After all, fish are just birds flying
in a really thick atmosphere...the physics [with special-case
modifucation] is the same as an air-atmosphere ;)

It's the speed of arc-propagation-channel, locally compressing the
medium directly in front of the propagation "wave", that causes the
corkscrewing...external electromagnetic forces have little, if anything,
to do with it, IMO.

Comments welcome :)

Dan K.