On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, David VanHorn wrote:
> At 08:02 PM 7/28/2004, Robert B. wrote:
> >Here is a direct quote from my sister's college physics book, which seems to
> >contradict everything I thought I knew about electrostatics.
...
> I think they meant that this is the process of DISCHARGING the capacitor.
...
> I can't find the right book at the moment, but I have it somewhere.
> Martin Uman is the author..

He wrote "The Lightning Discharge" and "All About Lightning" plus a number
of journal articles on lightning during his life.

Feynman in one of his three volumes on physics has a section describing
the process of lightning.  If there was a mistake in his writing I'd faint.

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