Point Charge Electric Potential Model

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The Point Charge Electric Potential model shows the electric potential produced by N point charges. Charges can be arranged in a ring, a line, or in parallel lines and the charge Q can alternate in sign. Custom configurations can be created by dragging particles or by entering xy and Q values into a data table. Blue (red) indicates a region of negative (positive) electric potential. The value of this potential V(x,y) is displayed in a textbox near the bottom of the view when the mouse is pressed.

The Point Charge Electric Potential model was created using the Easy Java Simulations (EJS) modeling tool. It is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive. Double click the ejs_em_PointChargeElectricPotential.jar file to run the program if Java is installed.

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

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Last Modified: June 11, 2014
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Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Electricity & Magnetism - Electric Fields and Potential = Electrostatic Potential and Potential Energy	- Lower Undergraduate - Middle School - High School	- Instructional Material = Interactive Simulation

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License:: This material is released under a GNU General Public License Version 3 license.
Rights Holder:: Wolfgang Christian
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created September 5, 2011 by Wolfgang Christian
Record Updated:: June 11, 2014 by Andreu Glasmann
Last Update when Cataloged:: September 5, 2011
Other Collections:: The Open Source Physics

the newer version is awesome

Author: lookang
Posted: September 23, 2013 at 5:15PM
Source: The Open Source Physics collection

the table and the potential plot are truly awesome.
will study it and create a version with potential, field vectors, field lines etc on a N particles system!
thanks and great simulation.

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hanges made:

added text array Q1, Q2, Q3 Q4 etc.
added visualization colormode range from 0 to 9
redesign the control panel to at the bottom
table of the right
made surface appear together with the charges for self manipulation to get 3D superposed view

relation by wee lookang

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