Recent content by jubby

I've decided to switch so late in the game because as a geology major I was hoping to get some elective credits out of the way by minoring in math--but the program wouldn't allow it, and instead they wanted me to take geology-focused electives. That same semester I took intro to modern physics...

Thanks, Dauden. Your advice has slightly swayed me toward taking summer school. I'm still a tad up in the air due to the cost, and also my mind going about minoring in math (if I go according to the plan I've panned out so far, I'll have to take a 400-series course my last year, and that's the...

Last year I re-declared myself a physics major--my "senior" year. Now I will be in school for the next two years striving to complete the physics requirements. I've been thinking a lot about ways to make the next two years worthwhile, and here's what I got: - Minor in math and/or geology (I...

Thank you so much, Bobby. Your advice, along with countless others outside of class, had helped me shape my project to something decent and doable. I was able to somewhat plot the magnetic dipole (simple) of Earth's magnetic field, but the solar wind seemed to not be as...merciful. Instead, at...

I'm currently doing a project on how the solar wind interacts with the Earth's magnetic field, but I'm having a hard time grasping the concept of the plasma emitted by the Sun and how it shapes the Earth's magnetic field. I read somewhere about a simple mirror dipole approximation (I'm guessing...