The Lightening Flash
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Author(s): V. Cooray (Ed.)
Publisher: IEE
ISBN: 0852967802
Format: hardback
574pp
Price: £59.00
Review Date: 27 January 2004
Review: This book, for graduate students, from many disciplines, provides a thorough background in almost every aspect of lightening and its impact on electronic and electrical equipment. Power engineers will be interested in the mechanisms of the lightening flash and the characteristics of electrical fields generated by lightening are vital for the protection of power lines. For electromagnetic specialists, lightening is a long radio antenna that generates a broadband electrical signal that can be used to characterize the effects of the propagation path of electromagnetic fields. For the telecom engineer, an understanding of the interaction of these fields with overhead and underground wires is of importance in protecting electrical instruments connected to overhead power lines and underground cables from induced over-voltages. For the high voltage engineer, lightening is a current and voltage generator that disrupts various components that are located on high voltage power lines. For the physicists, lightening is a laboratory in which one can test the fundamentals of discharge physics.