This page is for mark's notes on the lab.
June 12 2024
Consider recasting the lab as an experiment to estimate the yield of the bomb that created the Sedan crater and a crater on the moon.
- For each crater, how much energy was needed to create the crater, did most of the energy go into ejection or compaction?
- Start with building a simple, but physically reasonable model to predict the powerlaw relationship.
- Need to test the model to see if it has any bearing to reality. Thereby motivating taking data in the lab.
- We have two models based on different assumptions about where the energy goes. Does our sand data match either model. Possible questions to be answered and handed in between day 1 and 2.
- Does your data agree with one of the two models?
- Do you expect the data to necessarily agree with one of the models. Explain in terms of the underlying assumptions.