Visualizing Electric Fields
Electrical field lines due to a single positive charge.
Electrical field lines due to two unequal positive charges.
(Note that the density of the lines is a measure of the magnitude
of the force.)
Electrical field lines due to two charges which are equal in magnitude
but opposite
in sign (or due to a positive charge above a planar conductor.)
Electrical field lines associated with a charged parallel capacitor.
This page was prepared and is maintained by R.
Victor Jones
Comments to: jones@deas.harvard.edu.
Last updated March 5, 1999