Lecture Notes


Thu., Apr. 23 - Lichtenberg figures, volcanic lightning
Additional Cummins reference articles
Tue. & Thu., Apr 21 & 23 - Lightning safety & lightning protection
Thu., Apr. 16 - Lightning detection & location applications, lightning detection & location at VLF/LF & VHF
Tue., Apr. 14 - Locating Lightning, direction finding, time of arrival, location errors
Thu., Apr. 09 - Sprites, blue jets, elves; lightning on other planets
Tue., Apr. 07 - Optical signals from lightning, satellite observations of lightning
Thu., Apr. 02 - Probability distribution functions, nearest-neighbor distribution
Tue., Mar. 31
Thu., Mar. 26 - Experimental tests of the Bruce Golde and Transmission line models, estimates of Ipk and dI/dt
from remote measurements of electric radiation fields
Tue., Mar. 24 - E and B fields radiated by return strokes, Bruce Golde and Transmission line models
of lightning channel currents

Thu., Mar. 12 - Class cancelled (due to Gratis conference)
Tue., Mar. 10 - Midterm exam
Thu., Mar. 5 - Cloud-to-ground lightning flash phenomena pt. 2, rocket triggered lightning
Tue., Mar. 3 - Cloud-to-ground lightning flash phenomena pt. 1
Thu., Feb. 26 - Thunderstorms as a current source, Maxwell currents
Tue., Feb. 24 - KSC field mill network, charge center locations from electric field change measurements
Thu., Feb. 19 - Inductive and non-inductive cloud electrification processes, inverted cloud charge distributions
Tue., Feb. 17 - Structure of cold clouds, distribution of electrical charge in thunderstorms, cloud electrification pt. 1
Thu., Feb. 12 - Electron attachment to N2 and O2, molecular clustering, ion balance equations,
small ion attachement to aerosol particles
Tue., Feb. 10 - HW #1 solutions, sources of atmospheric ionization, radon, cosmic rays
Thu., Feb. 5 - Cylindrical capacitor, ion counter and conductivity meter
Tue., Feb. 3 - Current density, mobility, continuity equation, Ohm's law, clouds screening layers
Thu., Jan. 29 - Method of images, E field measurements in clouds, conducting sphere in a uniform field,
E field enhancement
Tue., Jan. 27 - Gauss' law (differential form), Poisson's Equation, Laplace's Equation, E field at conductor surface,
E field antennas, electric field mill
Thu., Jan. 22 - Coulomb's law, electric field and electrostatic potential, integral form of Gauss' Law
Tue., Jan. 20 - Historical overview (coming eventually I hope)
Thu., Jan. 15 - Introduction, brief description of the global electric circuit