A lightning flash during a thunderstorm can consist of one to tens of individual strokes, each with a duration between 10 and 100 milliseconds. Peak currents in a stroke can be as high as 20 kiloamperes. If a specific lightning flash has 10 separate strokes each lasting 50 milliseconds and carrying an average current of 8 kiloamperes, about how much charge gets transferred from the earth to the sky or vice versa?

A lightning flash during a thunderstorm can consist of one to tens of individual strokes, each with a duration between 10 and 100 milliseconds. Peak currents in a stroke can be as high as 20 kiloamperes. If a specific lightning flash has 10 separate strokes each lasting 50 milliseconds and carrying an average current of 8 kiloamperes, about how much charge gets transferred from the earth to the sky or vice versa?

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Chapter20: Electric Current, Resistance, And Ohm's Law

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Problem 60PE: Integrated Concepts (a) What energy is dissipated by a lightning bolt having a 20,000-A current, a...

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