electric field
a vector quantity from which is determined the magnitude and direction of the force (electric force ) on a charged particle due to the presence of other charged particles, accelerated charged particles, or time-varying currents. Symbol: E
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How to use electric field in a sentence
A particle is pushed along by the shock wave’s electric field, and the magnetic field helps the particle stay on course.
Controlling the electric field on the sole of each shoe determines whether a climbing foot will stick — or let go.
New glue offers to turn any small walking robot into Spider-Man | Shi En Kim | August 18, 2021 | Science News For StudentsTo make the glue unsticky, the researchers switch the direction of their system’s electric field.
New glue offers to turn any small walking robot into Spider-Man | Shi En Kim | August 18, 2021 | Science News For StudentsHowever, unlike in more conventional trapped-ion computers, they aren’t held in place using a single static electric field.
Honeywell Just Released Details About How Its Quantum Computer Works | Edd Gent | April 19, 2021 | Singularity HubRather than forging a whole new substance, experimentalists could tweak graphene’s properties with nothing more than an electric field, making it, to many researchers, a “playground” for superconductivity.
The lines of electric force will thus completely represent the electric field.
The New Gresham Encyclopedia | VariousIt is very convenient to represent an electric field by means of what are called lines of electric force.
The New Gresham Encyclopedia | VariousThese rays are not all identical and do not behave in the same way under the action of an electric field and a magnetic field.
When placed in an electric field the tissue paper "detector" places itself parallel to the lines of force.
Physics | Willis Eugene TowerLet any line drawn in an electric field be divided up into small elements of length.
British Dictionary definitions for electric field
a field of force surrounding a charged particle within which another charged particle experiences a force: Compare magnetic field
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Scientific definitions for electric field
The distribution in space of the strength and direction of forces that would be exerted on an electric charge at any point in that space. Electric fields themselves result directly from other electric charges or from changing magnetic fields. The strength of an electric field at a given point in space near an electrically charged object is proportional to the amount of charge on the object, and inversely proportional to the distance between the point and the object. See also electromagnetism electrostatic force.
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