Text-book of general physics, for the use of colleges and scientific schools (1899)
Hastings, Charles Sheldon · Boston: Ginn & company · leaf 339
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… … Fig. 201. body, might be great enough to overbalance the forceswhich would set its length parallel to the lines of force, andcause it to set transversely with respect to these lines. In the case where the value of K is greater in the sur-rounding medium, the distortion of the field is similar…
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