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| ===== Project 1A: Chasing a Thundercloud ===== | ===== Project: Chasing a Thundercloud ===== |
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| You and your group are a team of storm chasers tracking a massive thundercloud moving across the plains and into the mountains beside the town of Lakeview. You grab your handy-dandy high voltage probe ([[https://www.atecorp.com/ATECorp/media/ProductImages/L/Tektronix-P6015A_L.png|like this one]]) and radio, then drive from your headquarters 250 m until you are directly under the storm cloud. Thankfully, your team already calibrated the voltmeter to 0 V when the storm cloud was very far away. From your training, you know that if the electric field is bigger than 3 MV/m (also called the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dielectric_strength|dielectric breakdown of air]]), the air will become a conductor and lightning will strike. You need to determine if a) you are safe from lightning under the thundercloud and b) if the lightning rod on top of the storm-chaser headquarters will be hit. The master storm chaser and part-time civil engineer, Edric Storm, tells you that the storm-chaser headquarters is 200 m tall. | You and your group are a team of storm chasers tracking a massive thundercloud moving across the plains and into the mountains beside the town of Lakeview. You grab your handy-dandy high voltage probe ([[https://www.atecorp.com/ATECorp/media/ProductImages/AdditionalImages/Tektronix-P6015A_R.png|like this one]]) and radio, then drive from your headquarters 250 m until you are directly under the storm cloud. Thankfully, your team already calibrated the voltmeter to 0 V when the storm cloud was very far away. From your training, you know that if the electric field is bigger than 3 MV/m (also called the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dielectric_strength|dielectric breakdown of air]]), the air will become a conductor and lightning will strike. You need to determine if a) you are safe from lightning under the thundercloud and b) if the lightning rod on top of the storm-chaser headquarters will be hit. The master storm chaser and part-time civil engineer, Edric Storm, tells you that the storm-chaser headquarters is 200 m tall. |
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