Charges & the Electric Field
Try this: Release the test charge from rest. Does it follow the field line?
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About this simulation
Map the field of a few point charges, then launch a test charge into it and watch it refuse to follow the lines.
Taught in Charges & Electric Fields
- electric field
- Coulomb's law
- superposition
- field lines
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