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How do you calculate how much you can increase current before the air stops being ionized? Or is there no limit?

If electrical breakdown uses high voltages to breakdown air how can an arc discharge be a high current discharge?

Arc discharges are characterized as being high current discharges. I have done some research and there are some conflicting answers on how ar discharges start. Thermionic / Field Emmision Explanation: Arc discharges can start in two different ways thermionic emmission, where intense heat...

That makes a lot more sense. Thank you everyone!

Sorry I just got to it now. In the video it says that if the motion of the particle is linear then the magnetic and electric force have to cancel each other out. But in this scenario the particle does not experience any acceleration. I did some research and everything seems to point to the...

Why do they move like that?

And the motion will just be linear(perpendicular to both E and B)?

So if there is an electric field and a magnetic field will there not be circular motion? By the way thank you for responding.

If a charged particle moves with velocity V over a perpendicular margnetid feild B then the particle experiences lorentz force F = q(V x B). This force eventually results in what is called circular motion where the magnetic force becomes centripetal. However if the Lorentz force results in...