MIT Physics 8.02: Electrostatics - Electric Field of a Dipole

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written by John Belcher
designer: Michael Danziger

This is an interactive 3-D simulation of the electric field of two equal and opposite charges. The user moves an observation point around to see how the total field at various points arises from the individual fields of each charge.

This item is part of a larger collection of visualizations developed by the MIT TEAL/Studio Physics Project to support an introductory course in electricity and magnetism. Lecture notes, labs, and presentations are also available as part of the MIT Open Courseware Repository:
MIT Open Courseware: Electricity and Magnetism

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http://web.mit.edu/8.02t/www/802TEAL3D/visualizations/electrostati...

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Education Practices - Technology = Multimedia Electricity & Magnetism - Electric Fields and Potential = Electric Field - Electrostatics = Coulomb's Law	- High School - Lower Undergraduate	- Instructional Material = Interactive Simulation

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License:: This material is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.
Rights Holder:: MIT Open Courseware (OCW): http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/terms/terms/index.htm
Keywords:: 3D simulation, Coulomb, dipole, electric dipole, field lines, simulation
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created April 12, 2010 by Caroline Hall
Record Updated:: April 12, 2010 by Caroline Hall
Last Update when Cataloged:: May 2, 2008
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Belcher, J. (2008, May 2). MIT Physics 8.02: Electrostatics - Electric Field of a Dipole. Retrieved May 1, 2025, from http://web.mit.edu/8.02t/www/802TEAL3D/visualizations/electrostatics/DipoleField3d/dipoleField.htm

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Belcher, John. MIT Physics 8.02: Electrostatics - Electric Field of a Dipole. May 2, 2008. http://web.mit.edu/8.02t/www/802TEAL3D/visualizations/electrostatics/DipoleField3d/dipoleField.htm (accessed 1 May 2025).

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Belcher, John. MIT Physics 8.02: Electrostatics - Electric Field of a Dipole. 2004. 2 May 2008. National Science Foundation. 1 May 2025 <http://web.mit.edu/8.02t/www/802TEAL3D/visualizations/electrostatics/DipoleField3d/dipoleField.htm>.

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A very simple animation designed to show how a classic electric dipole field pattern emerges when two opposite charges of equal magnitude are separated.

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