ou are on a spacecraft (Starship) to Mars when Houston informs you that a very large solar storm is coming. You are dead as a doornail if you don’t do something. In order to save your life, and the life of your fellow astronauts, you devise a plan to save yourself by creating a large, square solenoid between you and the sun. The arrangement is depicted below. The incoming solar protons have a mass of mp = 1.673 x 10-23 kg, and maximum energy of Ep = 1.6022 x 10-15 J. The thickness of the solenoid is d=10cm. What needs to be the minimum strength of the magnetic field in order to stop this incoming radiation? (think of what the protons would do once they enter the magnetic field of the magnet)
You are on a spacecraft (Starship) to Mars when Houston informs you that a very large solar storm is coming. You are dead as a doornail if you don’t do something. In order to save your life, and the life of your fellow astronauts, you devise a plan to save yourself by creating a large, square solenoid between you and the sun. The arrangement is depicted below.
The incoming solar protons have a mass of mp = 1.673 x 10-23 kg, and maximum energy of Ep = 1.6022 x 10-15 J. The thickness of the solenoid is d=10cm. What needs to be the minimum strength of the magnetic field in order to stop this incoming
of the magnet)
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