Movements of electrically charged cloud particles
- 24 October 1936
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
- Vol. 32 (3) , 486-492
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305004100019198
Abstract
Experiments are described in which observations were made of the motion of electrically charged cloud particles past a sphere. The cloud particles were moving vertically up in an air stream, and there was a vertical electric field. This gave conditions similar to those surrounding a falling rain drop in a thundercloud, and the observations are in accordance with the theory proposed by Wilson to account for the mechanism of thunderclouds.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- On the electric charge collected by water-drops falling through a cloud of electrically charged particles in a vertical electric fieldProceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 1935
- Some thundercloud problemsJournal of the Franklin Institute, 1929