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5.6 Electric Field Lines
Sketching maps whose lines leave positive charge and end on negative, where line density encodes strength and no two lines may ever cross.
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3 exercises
5.6 Exercise 1
If a point charge is released from rest in a uniform electric field, will it follow a field line? Will it do so if the electric field is not uniform?
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5.6 Exercise 3
How would you experimentally distinguish an electric field from a gravitational field?
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5.6 Exercise 5
What is the ratio of the number of electric field lines leaving a charge 10q and a charge q?
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