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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.
1 source code document is available
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
Intended Users Formats Ratings
- Learners
- Educators
- application/java
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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
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August 27, 2009
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A. Duffy, Computer Program POINT CHARGE ELECTRIC FIELD AND POTENTIAL 2D MODEL, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9412&DocID=1572).
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A. Duffy, Computer Program POINT CHARGE ELECTRIC FIELD AND POTENTIAL 2D MODEL, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9412&DocID=1572>.
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Duffy, A. (n.d.). Point Charge Electric Field and Potential 2D Model [Computer software]. Retrieved May 29, 2023, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9412&DocID=1572
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Duffy, Andrew. "Point Charge Electric Field and Potential 2D Model." https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9412&DocID=1572 (accessed 29 May 2023).
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Duffy, Andrew. Point Charge Electric Field and Potential 2D Model. Computer software. 29 May 2023 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9412&DocID=1572>.
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