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MIT Physics 8.02: Electrostatics - Destroying an Electric Field Relations

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MIT Physics 8.02: Electrostatics - Destroying an Electric Field accompanies MIT Physics 8.02: Electrostatics - Creating an Electric Field
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A companion animation by the same authors  that depicts the opposite phenomenon: the creation of an electric field through charge separation. Strength of field increases as positive charges are moved one-by-one to a location of L distance from the initial position.



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