What is the largest electric field in the world? The world itself! This explains why you use a magnetic compass to determine direction. During the simulation, scholars add charges to their electric field to see how the field reacts. An additional challenge comes in when the simulation adds a background electric field to the current charges.

Concepts

electricity, electric charge, electric fields, magnitude

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Have scholars draw the lines of magnitude and relate the size to the strength

Classroom Considerations

• Runs on Java 1.5.0_15 or later for Windows and Linux computers and on Java 1.5.0_19 or later for Macs
• Simulation best fits after the Electric Field Hockey simulation

Pros

• Includes a few teacher-submitted activities for both middle and high school classes
• Provides simplifications of the model in order to differentiate instruction
• Translates the game into 44 different languages

Cons

• None