Delmar's Standard Textbook of Electricity (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781285852706
Author: Stephen L. Herman
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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A thundercloud has a negative charge, and an object on the ground has a positive charge. Will the lightning discharge be from the cloud to the ground or from the ground to the cloud?
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