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-===== Project 2A: Meanwhile Back At Stormchaser HQ =====+===== Project: Meanwhile Back At Stormchaser HQ =====
  
 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 some of the properties of this cloud are particularly interesting, specifically due to the fact that the cloud is moving Northward, 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). 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 some of the properties of this cloud are particularly interesting, specifically due to the fact that the cloud is moving Northward, 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). For the moment, the winds have died down and the cloud isn't moving.
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   * Recognize what you want to enter as a "known" (or parameter) in the code and what you want the program to calculate   * Recognize what you want to enter as a "known" (or parameter) in the code and what you want the program to calculate
   * Be able to explain how the code relates to the physics equations (from Week 1) and vice versa   * Be able to explain how the code relates to the physics equations (from Week 1) and vice versa
 +  * Explain what a while loop does in the code
 </WRAP> </WRAP>
  
 +Conceptual 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? 
 +  - What happens to your arrows if you change different parameters in the code? (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? 
 +  - What direction does the separation vector point? What about the E-field? 
 +  - What assumptions did you need to make to simplify this problem? 
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