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Electric charges in JAVA
This applet allows you to see in a graphical way concepts like electric
and potential fields. Furthermore, there is no danger to receive
a deadly discharge.
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Instructions
The left buttons let you move, erase or place an static charge.
The scrollbar define the amount of charge of the charge added.
The maximum number of simultaneous charges is 10.
The buttons...
- Movil
- This button drops a charge in a random place with a random
velocity.
- Force
- This simulate fiber exposed to an electric field. This image
can't be animated.
- Intensity
- When pressed, this button takes the norm of the electric field
in all points and give it a color between blue(lower) and red(higer).
If the intensity is greater than a value, the max. red is given.
The same happens to the min. values.
- Potential
- Shows the equi-potentials. Best viewed with little charges.
- Animate
- If this button is pushed with a background from "Potential",
"Intensity" or "Psychadelyc", the pallete of colors starts to cycle.
If it is pushed again the animation is suspended. To resume, press
again Animate.
- Clear
- This button can do several things. If there is an animation
running, it's stopped. If there is a background, it is cleared.
If there are only charges, all of them disapear.
- Psychadelic
- If there is a background (not Forces), it makes a pallete of
colors with the values of the textfields (0..255).
In other case, it calculates the sum of the logharitms of the
distances, and give them a color. This is just to see a pretty thing.
Here's one of my favorites: R1=255; R2=255; R3=255;
G1=0; G2=120 ; G3=170; B1=0; B2=0; B3=0. Press a few times "Movil", then
"Intensity", "Psychadelic" and finally "Animate". I call it
"Un agitado día de verano". ;)
Sebastián Rodríguez.
sebrodri@dcc.uchile.cl