Text-book of general physics, for the use of colleges and scientific schools (1899)
Hastings, Charles Sheldon · Boston: Ginn & company · leaf 338
have a greater horizontal resultantforce than those on the right. This important conclusionmay be differently stated thus: A dielectric body, placed inan electric field in a medium whose dielectric constant isless than its own, experiences a force urging it toward thatpart of the field where the… … 328 THE ELECTRIC EI ELL. seen to be the result of regarding- the lines of force in Fi<r.201 as under tension. If. however, such an elongated bodv were placed in a non-uni-form field where the inten-y ^ ■ sity varied o-reatlv within a small space, the expul-sion effect, being- differentfor…
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