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written by John Belcher
designer: Michael Danziger
This animation depicts the electric field of a moving positive charge when the speed of the charge is small compared to the speed of light.  It was designed to help students visualize that the direction of the field lines is radially outward for a positive charge. The item may be viewed as a video or in stepped motion.

This item is part of a larger collection of visualizations developed by the MIT TEAL/Studio Physics Project to support an introductory course in electricity and magnetism.

For lecture notes that accompany this specific animation, click below:
MIT Open Courseware: Coulomb's Law Lecture Notes (pdf)

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Electricity & Magnetism
- Electric Fields and Potential
= Electric Field
= Electrostatic Potential and Potential Energy
- Electrostatics
= Coulomb's Law
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Keywords:
Coulomb, animation, charged particle, electric field, electrostatics animation, statics
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Metadata instance created April 11, 2010 by Caroline Hall
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J. Belcher, (2004), WWW Document, (http://web.mit.edu/8.02t/www/802TEAL3D/visualizations/electrostatics/MovingChargePosElec/movingChargePosElec.htm).
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J. Belcher, MIT Physics 8.02: Electrostatics - Electric Field of a Moving Positive Charge (2004), <http://web.mit.edu/8.02t/www/802TEAL3D/visualizations/electrostatics/MovingChargePosElec/movingChargePosElec.htm>.
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Belcher, J. (2008, May 2). MIT Physics 8.02: Electrostatics - Electric Field of a Moving Positive Charge. Retrieved November 13, 2024, from http://web.mit.edu/8.02t/www/802TEAL3D/visualizations/electrostatics/MovingChargePosElec/movingChargePosElec.htm
Chicago Format
Belcher, John. MIT Physics 8.02: Electrostatics - Electric Field of a Moving Positive Charge. May 2, 2008. http://web.mit.edu/8.02t/www/802TEAL3D/visualizations/electrostatics/MovingChargePosElec/movingChargePosElec.htm (accessed 13 November 2024).
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Belcher, John. MIT Physics 8.02: Electrostatics - Electric Field of a Moving Positive Charge. 2004. 2 May 2008. National Science Foundation. 13 Nov. 2024 <http://web.mit.edu/8.02t/www/802TEAL3D/visualizations/electrostatics/MovingChargePosElec/movingChargePosElec.htm>.
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@misc{ Author = "John Belcher", Title = {MIT Physics 8.02: Electrostatics - Electric Field of a Moving Positive Charge}, Volume = {2024}, Number = {13 November 2024}, Month = {May 2, 2008}, Year = {2004} }
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MIT Physics 8.02: Electrostatics - Electric Field of a Moving Positive Charge:

Accompanies MIT Physics 8.02: Electrostatics - Electric Field of a Moving Negative Charge

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