Electric Field
The field around charges, uniform fields between plates and charged particles in flight.
MODULE 06 / ALGEBRA CORE · CALCULUS EXTENSIONS
From a single charge to light itself: fields, circuits, magnets and waves.
Every topic is built for algebra-based physics. Where calculus adds insight, a Show the calculus option on the same lab adds integrals, derivatives and Gauss’s, Ampère’s and Faraday’s laws in their full form.
Drag point charges and watch the forces. Coulomb’s law, superposition, Newton’s third law pairs, and charging by friction, contact and induction.
Enter the labThe field around charges, uniform fields between plates and charged particles in flight.
Sketch field lines, then compare with the real map. Flux and Gauss’s law in the calculus tier.
Potential, equipotentials and energy. Capacitors and the energy they store.
Four Coulomb’s law problems: sort knowns and unknowns, assemble the solution from blocks (some contain common mistakes), then compare your force with the physics. Instructors can build their own problems visually.
Start solvingWhat actually moves in a wire, how slowly it drifts, and why the light still comes on at once.
Resistivity, I–V graphs of resistors, bulbs and diodes, and electrical power.
Build circuits, apply Kirchhoff’s rules, and see how real meters and RC circuits behave.
Fields of magnets and currents, forces on moving charges and wires, and the electric motor.
Changing flux makes current: Faraday’s and Lenz’s laws, generators and magnetic braking.
Alternating current, transformers, the power grid, resonance and electrical safety.
How accelerating charges make light, the spectrum, and polarization.