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This page contains an interactive simulation of charges in an electric field.  Users add or delete charges to see how they react to the field.  The user can also activate an external field and control its magnitude and direction.  For more advanced learners, the field can be set to varying levels of discreteness.

This item is part of a larger collection of materials developed and maintained by the Physics Education Technology project (PhET) based on principles of physics education research.

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Subjects Levels Resource Types
Electricity & Magnetism
- Electric Fields and Potential
= Electric Field
- Lower Undergraduate
- High School
- Informal Education
- Instructional Material
= Activity
= Interactive Simulation
Intended Users Formats Ratings
- Learners
- Educators
- application/java
- text/html
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© 2007 University of Colorado, Physics Education Technology
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Keywords:
charge, charge interaction, electric charges, electric field
Record Cloner:
Metadata instance created November 16, 2007 by Alea Smith
Record Updated:
August 18, 2016 by Lyle Barbato
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November 16, 2007
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(PhET, Boulder, 2007), WWW Document, (https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/efield).
AJP/PRST-PER
PhET Simulation: Electric Field of Dreams (PhET, Boulder, 2007), <https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/efield>.
APA Format
PhET Simulation: Electric Field of Dreams. (2007, November 16). Retrieved April 27, 2024, from PhET: https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/efield
Chicago Format
PhET. PhET Simulation: Electric Field of Dreams. Boulder: PhET, November 16, 2007. https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/efield (accessed 27 April 2024).
MLA Format
PhET Simulation: Electric Field of Dreams. Boulder: PhET, 2007. 16 Nov. 2007. 27 Apr. 2024 <https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/efield>.
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@misc{ Title = {PhET Simulation: Electric Field of Dreams}, Publisher = {PhET}, Volume = {2024}, Number = {27 April 2024}, Month = {November 16, 2007}, Year = {2007} }
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