Magnetic surfing: Reformulation of Lenz's law and applications to spacecraft propulsion

36th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Matloff, Gregory L ^a,b   Johnson, Les ^a  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT PROPULSION; KINETICS; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

FIELD LINES; INDUCED EMF; LENZ'S LAWS; LOW-VELOCITY; SPEED UP;

MAGNETIC FIELDS;

EID: 84896474406     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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