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From: wilker@gauss.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: High Tension Wire Hazards?
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Date: 23 Mar 91 15:24:21 GMT
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I don't know about the risks, but I do remember from
sophomore physics that in contrast to the inverse-square
dropoff for a point source, for an infinite line source,
it's an inverse linear dropoff.
Clarence Wilkerson