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☄️ Cosmic Rays in the Equatorial Plane: 2D Stormer Problem

Interactive 2D Stormer problem: charged cosmic rays in the geomagnetic equatorial plane, forbidden region, east-west effect.

Physics & Mechanics2DAdvanced60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

Details

CategoryPhysics & Mechanics

RenderingCanvas 2D

DifficultyAdvanced

Target FPS60

ControlsPresets for galactic proton, solar burst, near-cutoff, hard proton, electron and weak field; species, rigidity, source (beam or isotropic), particles per second, beam width, field strength and playback speed sliders; drag the orange handle to rotate the beam, drag in empty space to fire a single particle.

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⚙ Under the hood

Interactive 2D Stormer problem: charged cosmic rays are deflected by Earth's dipole field in the equatorial plane, with the forbidden region, Stormer length and arrival histogram shown live.

cosmic raysmagnetosphereStormer problemLorentz forcegeomagnetic cutoff

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install