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| ===== Project: Better Thundercloud Model ===== | ===== Project: Better Thundercloud Model ===== |
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| The storms over Lakeview have gotten worse, with an almost permanent pitch black cloud system hovering overhead. The S.P.A.R.T.A.N. scientists have deployed a Mapping N$\vec{E}$twork Sensor Array (M$\vec{E}$NSA) around Stormchaser HQ to try to understand what's happening. While they appreciated the model of the cloud's electric field you created for them two weeks ago, the data they're collecting simply don't match the models predictions. They've concluded that modeling storm clouds as point charges was, in fact, problematic, and a better model for the thundercloud needs to be produced to understand how it is functioning. | The storms over Lakeview have gotten worse, with an almost permanent pitch black cloud system hovering overhead. The S.P.A.R.T.A.N. scientists at Stormchaser HQ have been taking data with the Super-Mega-Storm-Cloud-Meter 9000<sup>TM</sup> to try to understand what's happening. While they appreciated the model of the cloud's electric field you created for them two weeks ago, the data they're collecting simply don't match the model's predictions. They've concluded that modeling storm clouds as point charges was, in fact, problematic, and a better model for the thundercloud needs to be produced to understand how it is functioning. |
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| Based on some research from the [[184_notes:lightning|National Weather Service]], they think that a better model for clouds would be two flat sheets of charge, since the negative charges in the cloud collect on the bottom of the cloud and the positive charges collect near the top. Given that the negative charge is much closer to the ground (and headquarters), the Lakeviewians want to prioritize what the M$\vec{E}$NSA will show based on the bottom of the cloud. (If you have time, though, they'd be interested in whether the top of the cloud has any effect.) They have shared their model of the bottom of the most recent storm cloud (which is thankfully fully functioning, well-commented code), but they are having trouble getting the electric field on the ground. The Lakeviewians have asked your team for your help completing the code. | Based on some research from the [[184_notes:lightning|National Weather Service]], they think that a better model for clouds would be two flat sheets of charge, since the negative charges in the cloud collect on the bottom of the cloud and the positive charges collect near the top. Given that the negative charge is much closer to the ground (and headquarters), the Lakeviewians want to prioritize what the Super-Mega-Storm-Cloud-Meter 9000<sup>TM</sup> will show based on the bottom of the cloud. (If you have time, though, they'd be interested in whether the top of the cloud has any effect.) They have shared their model of the bottom of the most recent storm cloud (which is thankfully fully functioning, well-commented code), but they are having trouble getting the electric field on the ground. The Lakeviewians have asked your team for your help completing the code and calculating the E field for a broad range of different points on the ground around HQ. |
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