Elementary treatise on electricity and magnetism (1903)
Foster, George Carey, 1835-1919, Joubert, Jules François, 1834-1910. Traité élémentaire d'électricité, Porter, Alfred William, 1863- joint author · London, New York, Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 60
is discussed in (188), and the result there arrivedat applies equally to the present case. The lines of force for a conducting sphere in a uniform fieldare shown in Fig. 21, ivhich must be considered as a section ofthe field of force by a plane through the axis. The lines are sodrawn that if they… … Fig. 21. 26. Electric Influence on Bad Conductors.—The effects of influence are less distinct with badly conducting substances. Sucha body placed in an electric field seems to behave as though itwere composed of a multitude of minute conductors, separated byan insulating medium, each of which is…
Electricity · Magnetism
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