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| + | ==== Project 11B: Protecting An Experiment ==== | ||
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| + | We may have the answer to the question of where the EM Boar Tigers have come from. Unidentified flying objects have descended into a near-Earth orbit and in a weird turn of events have raised pipelines all over the world to float in the air. The speculation is that the EM Boar Tigers want the pipes to eat just as they did in the scrap yard. The mechanism by which the pipes are floating is unknown but your team has been tasked with investigating this phenomenon. Your specific task at this moment in time is to determine the electric field both inside and outside the pipe if it is struck by lightning as you want to put a measuring device in the pipe to find out what is going on. You need to find the right pipe. At the moment you are focused on a 6-meter wide cylindrical pipe that is 2 km long near Laredo, Texas. Your initial investigations is that a pipe with walls that are at least 25 cm thick should protect the apparatus inside from lightning strikes. Your supervisors indicate a 10 cm thick pipe could work also, which would be better? | ||
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| + | <WRAP info> | ||
| + | ===Learning Goals=== | ||
| + | * Use Gauss' | ||
| + | * Explain why you picked your Gaussian surface and how it helped you simplify your calculations. | ||
| + | * Explain the general steps that you take when using Gauss' | ||
| + | * Explain what would change about your solution if the pipe were metal vs plastic. | ||
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