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Monday, May 5, 2008
Cinqo de Mayo!! :) oi!

Today, we looked at the total electron count over the course of day. We were asked to answer two questions and email them back to Dr. L. These were my two answers to Dr. L:

Declarative Sentences: 1. Over the U.S., the Total Electron Count in our atmosphere never reaches higher than 20TEC. It changes from 0TEC-20TEC over the course of a day and only the lower parts of the U.S. are able to reach up to 20TEC. The colors correspond to the number of TEC we receive. The colors change depending on whether it is night or day. When it is day, we receive more electrons then when it is night.

2. Yes, you would be able to predict the rate of cosmic ray arrival because, depending on the sun, you will receive more or less electrons. When the sun is above or near the U.S. we are able to get more electrons because the sun sends out electrons. When it is night, we receive less electrons because the sun is unable to send out electrons over the U.S. The electrons from the sun also would be able to turn into muons when they hit other particles. All in all, the time of day determines how many electrons a cosmic ray detector will receive.

Tuesday, May 6, 2008
We had a discussion on Tuesday about our upcoming Cosmic Ray project we are about to do.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Today, he gave us our user name and password to access the Cosmic Ray e-lab. We had to take a pre-test when we signed on. We also had to find the cosmic rays at the certain schools we were assigned based on our letters. I ran into a few complications for my first two schools and wasn't able to start my map.

Thursday, May 8, 2008
So i have four schools that i have to put into a map, but two out of my four do not work. One has an error on the geometry page and the other one the coordinates don't seem to work... But I was able to create a map for my other two schools that have cosmic ray detectors. That's all I did in class because I don't know where to go from there.

Friday, May 9, 2008
Had a doctors appointment so i left...