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 ===== Project: Meanwhile Back At Stormchaser HQ ===== ===== Project: Meanwhile Back At Stormchaser HQ =====
  
 +==== Kick Off Questions ====
 +  - What is the difference between a separation vector ($\vec{r}$) and a separation //unit// vector ($\hat{r}$)?
 +  - What should the E-field look like on the ground for a positive storm cloud? What about a negative cloud?
 +  - Read through the main question and look at the given code block. Read through the code line-by-line as a group and write out in plain English words (or pseudocode) what each line does. For example "Line 3 - makes a cloud as a white sphere"
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 +==== Main Problem ====
 The team back at headquarters has just received a call from the National Weather Service (https://www.weather.gov/) that they want you to take some additional data on this cloud. Apparently the cloud is behaving strangely. It is staying together longer than most clouds do and is moving northward, which is not typical of most clouds in this geographical region (see some [[https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/why-do-clouds-move-in-a-certain-direction.757627/|discussion of this here]] if you're interested).  Someone in town has started a rumor that the cloud is unnatural, and the mayor is demanding the S.P.A.R.T.A.N. team look into it with the new Super-Mega-Storm-Cloud-Meter 9000<sup>TM</sup>.  For the moment, the winds have died down and the cloud isn't moving. The team back at headquarters has just received a call from the National Weather Service (https://www.weather.gov/) that they want you to take some additional data on this cloud. Apparently the cloud is behaving strangely. It is staying together longer than most clouds do and is moving northward, which is not typical of most clouds in this geographical region (see some [[https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/why-do-clouds-move-in-a-certain-direction.757627/|discussion of this here]] if you're interested).  Someone in town has started a rumor that the cloud is unnatural, and the mayor is demanding the S.P.A.R.T.A.N. team look into it with the new Super-Mega-Storm-Cloud-Meter 9000<sup>TM</sup>.  For the moment, the winds have died down and the cloud isn't moving.
  
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 <code> <code>
 +GlowScript 2.9 VPython
 ## Scene Setup ## Scene Setup
 scene = display(width=1000, height = 1000) scene = display(width=1000, height = 1000)
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 </WRAP> </WRAP>
  
-Conceptual questions: +==== Wrap Up Questions ==== 
-  - What should the E-field look like for a positive storm cloud? What about a negative cloud? +  - How do you know if your code is working right? (Write these in your evaluation quadrant!) 
-  - How do you know if your code is working right? +  - What does the while loop do in Step 2? How do you know what should be inside the loop vs outside the loop? 
-  - What happens to your arrows if you change different parameters in the code? (e.g. cloud height, cloud charge, etc.)+  - What happens to your arrows if you change different parameters in the code? Try it out! (e.g. cloud height, cloud charge, etc.)
   - How big is the E-field below the cloud? Is that large/small/normal for an E-field?   - How big is the E-field below the cloud? Is that large/small/normal for an E-field?
   - What direction does the separation vector point? What about the E-field?   - What direction does the separation vector point? What about the E-field?
   - What assumptions did you need to make to simplify this problem?    - What assumptions did you need to make to simplify this problem? 
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