The influence of the earth's magnetic field on electric transmission in the upper atmosphere
- 1 November 1928
- journal article
- Published by The Royal Society in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character
- Vol. 121 (787) , 260-285
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1928.0195
Abstract
In the ‘Philosophical Magazine’ for December, 1924, Sir Joseph Larmor showed how wireless waves can be transmitted to great distances, round the protuberance of the curved earth, and without excessive damping, if the transmission takes place in an ionised region high in the ultra-rarefied upper atmosphere, in which the number of effective ions increases upwards. Under the influence of the waves the ions oscillate, and thus produce a current which must be added, in the electrodynamic equations of the exciting wave, to the aetherial displacement current. The velocity of propagation is thus altered to c ', where c ' -2 = c -2 (1-4 π N e 2 c 2 / mp 2 )This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: