View Single Post
  #2353 (permalink)  
Old 29-April-2006, 09:38 PM
Nereid Nereid is online now
Order of Kilopi
 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 10,941
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by sol88
I visulize a magnetic/electric field much the same as you see for Earth, Jupiter, Sol...etc and when moons/rocks/dust/comets move thru this field, an electric charge is produced. The higher the angle of attack (steeper to the radial field) the faster the charge rate.

Sol
What is the quantitative relationship between 'angle of attack' and 'charge rate'?

At what point (or points), in [angle of attack, charge rate] space can a calibration be obtained?