Developed by Patrick Kelley and Gautam Vemuri - Published January 15, 2020
DOI: 10.1119/PICUP.Exercise.OffAxisRingofCharges
Subject Area | Electricity & Magnetism |
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Level | First Year |
Available Implementation | MATLAB |
Learning Objectives |
Students that complete this exercise will be able to
1. Use computer code to visualize in 3D magnitudes and directions of vector quantities they calculate computationally (Exercises 1-7)
2. Write the pseudocode for calculating the off-axis electric field due to a charge distribution (Exercise 1).
3. Using the pictures of E-field, develop qualitative reasoning skills, such as using the symmetry of the charge distribution to answer questions (exercise 4)
4. Investigate the effect of a ring consisting of both positive and negative charges, something difficult to do analytically (exercises 5-7)
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Time to Complete | 90 min |
These exercises are not tied to a specific programming language. Example implementations are provided under the Code tab, but the Exercises can be implemented in whatever platform you wish to use (e.g., Excel, Python, MATLAB, etc.).
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Patrick Kelley and Gautam Vemuri, "Visualizing the off-axis electric field due to a ring of electric charges," Published in the PICUP Collection, January 2020, https://doi.org/10.1119/PICUP.Exercise.OffAxisRingofCharges.
DOI: 10.1119/PICUP.Exercise.OffAxisRingofCharges
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