Motion of a Short Arc in a Magnetic Field
- 1 October 1956
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 104 (1) , 15-16
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.104.15
Abstract
When an electric arc with an evaporating cathode (e.g., copper) is exposed to a strong transverse magnetic field in atmospheric air, its motion can be made to change from the conventional to the reverse direction by reducing sufficiently the electrode separation.Keywords
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