https://gdpark.blog/tags/electric-field/Recent content in Electric Field on gdpark.blogHugoenMon, 22 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/electromagnetism-02-gauss-s-law/Fri, 14 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/electromagnetism-02-gauss-s-law/A super easy breakdown of Gauss’s law using a soy-sauce-flinging analogy — because electric field lines and flux really don’t have to be scary, okay?!https://gdpark.blog/posts/electromagnetism-03-electric-potential/Fri, 14 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/electromagnetism-03-electric-potential/We dig into electric potential — why curl = 0 lets you define a scalar potential, how E = -∇V falls out of that, and a sneak peek at Poisson’s equation~https://gdpark.blog/posts/electromagnetism-05-electrostatics-in-conductors/Sat, 15 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/electromagnetism-05-electrostatics-in-conductors/A casual walkthrough of why E = 0 inside ideal conductors, how charges spread to the outer surface, and how to handle a nested conductor sphere problem!https://gdpark.blog/posts/electromagnetism-10-polarization/Tue, 18 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/electromagnetism-10-polarization/Diving into how atoms and dielectrics respond to electric fields — getting polarized, forming tiny dipole moments, and what that α actually means!https://gdpark.blog/posts/electromagnetism-14-linear-dielectrics-part-2/Mon, 22 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/electromagnetism-14-linear-dielectrics-part-2/Why even bother stuffing a dielectric in a capacitor? Turns out it bumps up the capacitance — and Venom-Spider-Man definitely has the cushier gig because of it!