written by Wolfgang Christian

The EM Radiation program displays the electric field vectors (in the x-y plane) and magnetic field contours (for the field in the z direction) calculated from the Lienard-Wiechert potentials for a charged particle.  The default scenario shows the resulting radiation from a charged particle in simple harmonic motion.   Additional particle trajectories can be specified using the Display | Switch GUI menu item.  

EM Radiation is an Open Source Physics program written for the teaching of electromagnetism.  It is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive.  Double clicking the em_radiation.jar file will run the program if Java is installed.  Other electromagnetism programs are also available.  They can be found by searching ComPADRE for Open Source Physics, OSP, or electromagnetism.

• Download em_radiation.jar - 593kb Java Archive File

Last Modified August 4, 2009

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