Lecture 17: Arc Lighting
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Lecture 17: Arc Lighting
General Lectures on Electrical Engineering - lines 9920-12795
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radiation and light, waves and transmission lines, lightning surges, field language, transients, lightning and surges, transient phenomena
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Read this as an early engineering treatment of non-steady electrical behavior: sudden charge, discharge, wave travel, damping, and surge stress.
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