Snow, Benjamin Warner, 1860- · Madison, Wis. · leaf 373
nconductors which are not spherical in form. 323. The Discharging Power of Points. If we now conceiveone of the above .spheres to grow smaller, its surface density willbecome greater in the same proportion as its radius becomes less;and when its radius is indefinitely small, its surface… … The underlying cause for the discharging power of points isfound in the rapid fall of potential which occurs in their neigh-borhood. This may at once be seen by constructing the equipo-tential surfaces in the neighborhood of a body provided wdth asharp point. Thus, if P, Fig. 206, is a metallic…
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