Point Charge Forces in 2D Model

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Point Charge Forces in 2D Model

written by Andrew Duffy

The Point Charge Forces in Two-Dimensions model investigates the electric force that a charged particle experiences in a two-dimensional situation, because of four other nearby charged particles. The net electric force is shown as an arrow attached to the particle. Note that each particle can be dragged around the screen.

The Point Charge Forces in Two-Dimensions was created using the Easy Java Simulations (EJS) modeling tool. It is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive. Double clicking the ejs_bu_Point_Charge_Force_2D.jar file will run the program if Java is installed.

Please note that this resource requires at least version 1.5 of Java (JRE).

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Last Modified: June 11, 2014
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Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Electricity & Magnetism - Electric Fields and Potential = Electric Field - Electrostatics = Coulomb's Law	- Lower Undergraduate - Middle School - High School - Upper Undergraduate	- Instructional Material = Interactive Simulation - Audio/Visual = Movie/Animation

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Mirror:: http://physics.bu.edu/~duffy/Ejs/…
Access Rights:: Free access
License:: This material is released under a GNU General Public License Version 3 license.
Rights Holder:: Andrew Duffy, Boston University
Keywords:: charge, charge particles, coulomb's law, electric, electric field, field
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created April 16, 2010 by Wolfgang Christian
Record Updated:: June 11, 2014 by Andreu Glasmann
Last Update when Cataloged:: April 16, 2010

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