Application (& Extra Credit): Lightning

Read Textbook Technology Brief 2:  Voltage: How Big is Big? or online http://c3.eecs.umich.edu/ulaby_techbriefs.html

Extra Credit:  Can you find a local lightning rod? There is at least one set of lightning rods around WEB.  Can you find them?   (turn in a photo or description of where you found them)

 

From Jetstream Online School For Weather produced by the National Weather Service, (Links to an external site.)

A Positive lightning strike can produce as much as 300,000 amperes and ONE BILLION VOLTS! In fact positive lightning has been recorded as striking as far as up to 10 mile away from the parent Thunderstorm, this is known as a bolt from the blue.

READ MORE ON LIGHTNING
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/srh/jetstream/li… (Links to an external site.)
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/primer/lightnin… (Links to an external site.)
(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.)http://www.ucar.edu/communications/infop… (Links to an external site.)
http://www.srh.weather.gov/srh/jetstream… (Links to an external site.)
http://www.lightningmaster.com/FAQ.htm (Links to an external site.)
http://www.ourbetternature.org/lightning… (Links to an external site.)
http://www.harkphoto.com/light.html (Links to an external site.)