ATAR Notes: Forum

HSC Stuff => HSC Science Stuff => HSC Subjects + Help => HSC Physics => Topic started by: bluecookie on February 08, 2017, 10:03:36 pm

Title: Where do neutrons come from in the inner van allen belt?
Post by: bluecookie on February 08, 2017, 10:03:36 pm

My physics worksheets says that the van allen belts is the region of large numbers of charged particles from solar winds captured by earth's magnetic field, and the inner allen belt is made up of mostly protons, some of which are the result of beta decay. Where do the neutrons of this beta decay come from? Do they come from the solar wind or from the earth's atmosphere?