Electrostatics Physlet-Based Curriculum

Discuss and solve each of the physlet-based problems below in your lab groups. Carefully write out your answers and explain how you arrived at them.

1. Like and unlike charges
2. Scale-up Exercise
3. More like and unlike charges
4. Problem 9.1.6
5. Coulomb force applet
6. Force vs. distance
7. Force on a test charge
8. Vector force
9. Positive and Negative charges
10. Electric field vectors
11. More electric field vectors
12. Trajectory of a test charge NOT EXTRA CREDIT!!!!!
13. Trajectory in an electric field
14. Orbits in an Electric field
15. Electric field hockey SOME INSTRUCTIONS ON WHAT TO PLAY MAY BE NECESSARY
16. Force vector and field lines
17. Superposition of field lines
18. Field lines -- total charge