Point Charge Electric Field and Potential 2D Model

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Point Charge Electric Field and Potential 2D Model

written by Andrew Duffy

The Point Charge Electric Field and Potential model explores the concepts of the electric field and the electric potential, in a two-dimensional situation. You can turn on 1 to 5 charged particles, and move a test charge around the plane near these charged particles to sample both the electric field and the electric potential, produced by the charged particles, at various points. You can also turn on a grid of field vectors, which show the direction and, qualitatively, the magnitude of the field at a grid of equally spaced points in the plane in which the charged particles are located.

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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
Restriction:: Has a copyright or other licensing restriction.
Keywords:: Electric, charge, field, magnitude, particles, vector
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created September 2, 2009 by Elijah Lee
Record Updated:: May 11, 2015 by wee lookang
Last Update when Cataloged:: August 27, 2009
Other Collections:: The Physics Source

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