It is therefore a simple matter to suggest the following test. If the erosion plasma is indeed accelerated by Ampere forces, the impulse obtained by the ballistic pendulum 1 (Fig. 3b) must be equal to the integrated product of the magnetic pressure over the area of the cross-section of the accelerator channel and the discharge duration - and the plasma-forming surface must not absorb the recoil momentum. But if the erosion plasma is formed as a result of the ions emitted from the periodically formed D-layers, the plasma-forming dielectric wall must absorb the entire recoil momentum. And if the dielectric impulse of the accelerator is, simultaneously the impulse transferred to pendulum 2, the latter will acquire exactly the same momentum as pendulum 1 (Fig. 3c). We have carried out such a test. [7] The discharge was initiated on the LHS, near pendulum 2, with conductors from the capacitor bank and the accelerator inside a vacuum chamber. The plasma formed as a result of the erosion of the dielectric surface of pendulum 2 travels to the right, increasing the inductance of the discharge, and the pendulums do not move. On a moving film the discharge is shown as a bright area. The following figures show the instantaneous positions of the pendulums. Both the pendulums were deflected (Fig. 3d), the LH one (2) (against the Ampere force) being deflected more than the RI I one (1), which is easily explained by friction in the accelerator channel. Thus it appears that the electromagnetic model in the case of the impulse erosion plasma contradicts the law of conservation of momentum. By contrast, the triple D-layer model does not.
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