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| Everything is getting pretty hairy in the town of Lakeview. The town and surrounding landscape are almost under a constant barrage of storms. The number of deaths due to lightning strikes in Lakeview in one week is larger than the amount the whole world has seen in the last 5 years. Jo Harding, a crazy local scientist who has had a few run-ins with storms before has an idea of putting up giant metal T's, with the base of the T inserted into the ground to try and stop the townspeople from being struck with lightning. Jo wants the base of the T to be made of wood and the horizontal top of the T to be a metal. Mayor Rachel Wando is up for reelection and is willing to listen to any ideas to stop deaths but ever since the lightning storms started she has been in non-stop meetings in which electric fields are being constantly talked about. Rachel reaches out to her friends at the storm chaser HQ for a model of what the electric field will be for one of these T's after it has been struck by lightning. The code below is the beginnings of your teams work on modeling the electric field from the giant T. | Everything is getting pretty hairy in the town of Lakeview. The town and surrounding landscape are almost under a constant barrage of storms. The number of deaths due to lightning strikes in Lakeview in one week is larger than the amount the whole world has seen in the last 5 years. Jo Harding, a crazy local scientist who has had a few run-ins with storms before has an idea of putting up giant metal T's, with the base of the T inserted into the ground to try and stop the townspeople from being struck with lightning. Jo wants the base of the T to be made of wood and the horizontal top of the T to be a metal. Mayor Rachel Wando is up for reelection and is willing to listen to any ideas to stop deaths but ever since the lightning storms started she has been in non-stop meetings in which electric fields are being constantly talked about. Rachel reaches out to her friends at the storm chaser HQ for a model of what the electric field will be for one of these T's after it has been struck by lightning. The code below is the beginnings of your teams work on modeling the electric field from the giant T. | ||
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| - | One of the ways to begin thinking about this kind of electric field is to start with a subset of the problem. You and your group will be looking at a simplified version of this electric field. Instead of two parallel plates with opposite charges, you will be looking at a one dimensional representation of one of the plates. | ||
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| - | The code below will create a line of seven charges. */ | ||
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| * Use superposition to calculate and visualize the electric field around a line of charge | * Use superposition to calculate and visualize the electric field around a line of charge | ||
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