Wednesday 22 June 2016

More electric field patterns



The theory says that field lines leave and join surfaces at 90 degrees. I went on to have a point with a plane electrode, as shown in the top picture. The semolina lines are very close to the the theory. A uniform field has parallel field lines. Near the surface of the plane electrode the field approximates to uniform. The same could be said in the middle of the gap between the two point charges shown in the bottom picture,