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Earth's E Field Meter



The current (July,'99) Sc. Am. Amateur Scientist column describes a novel
instrument for measuring the electrostatic field in the atmosphere. You can
also get to the article at www.sciam.com.

I am concerned that the configuration of metal used in the construction of
the instrument will significantly disturb the field to be measured (a
difficulty common to all such atmospheric E measurement techniques). Any
comments? It would make a good construction project for students/faculty.

-Bob

Bob Sciamanda
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
trebor@velocity.net
http://www.velocity.net/~trebor