Physics C Electricity & Magnetism
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Motion of Charged Particle Activity
     In this activity you will place charged particles from the charge bin onto the field of play.  The black puck will respond the overall electric field and begin to move when you click the start button. Your goal is to allow the puck to move into the goal to score.  You can change the level of difficulty by adding blocking devices to the field of play or by changing the mass of the puck.

Goal: To gain a deeper understanding of the instantaneous force exerted on a charged object in an electric field and the accelerations and trajectories that result from these forces.

     When you are comfortable that you have mastered the "art of motion in the E-field", record five things you learned about it from this simulation in your lab notebook.

Click here or on the image below to launch the simulation.

 

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