Boston University PhysLets: Coulomb's Law

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written by Andrew Duffy and Wolfgang Christian

This PhysLet simulation allows the user to graph the dependence of the Coulomb force on the distance between charges.

Please note that this resource requires Java.

http://physics.bu.edu/~duffy/semester2/c01_coulomb.html

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Education Practices - Technology = Multimedia Electricity & Magnetism - Electrostatics = Coulomb's Law	- Lower Undergraduate - High School	- Instructional Material = Interactive Simulation - Audio/Visual = Movie/Animation

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Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2003 Boston University
Keywords:: Coulomb's Law, charge, distance, electrostatics, graph, inverse square law
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created October 16, 2007 by Taha Mzoughi
Record Updated:: July 31, 2008 by Taha Mzoughi
Last Update when Cataloged:: January 12, 2003

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