{"id":1059,"date":"2011-11-23T18:03:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T17:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2011-11-23T18:03:02","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T17:03:02","slug":"have-fun-with-electric-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1059","title":{"rendered":"Have fun with electric fields!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Higher Physics students explored electric fields today.<br \/>\nMost important fact is that an electric field is a region in space where charged particles like electrons or protons experience a force.<br \/>\nThe Electric field can be visualised with arrows. The direction of which tells you the direction a small positive charged particle would experience the electric force.<br \/>\nTry this fascinating PhET Simulation called Electric field hockey.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 300px; height: 281px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phet.colorado.edu\/sims\/electric-hockey\/electric-hockey_en.jnlp\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phet.colorado.edu\/sims\/electric-hockey\/electric-hockey-screenshot.png\" alt=\"Electric Field Hockey\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"300\" height=\"281\"\/><\/p>\n<div style=\"position: absolute; width: 200px; height: 80px; left: 50px; top: 100px; background-color: #FFF; opacity: 0.6; filter: alpha(opacity = 60);\"><\/div>\n<table style=\"position: absolute; width: 200px; height: 80px; left: 50px; top: 100px;\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; color: #000; font-size: 24px; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">Click to Run<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phet.colorado.edu\/en\/simulation\/electric-hockey\" target=\"_blank\">Electric Hockey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Higher Physics students explored electric fields today. Most important fact is that an electric field is a region in space where charged particles like electrons or protons experience a force. The Electric field can be visualised with arrows. The direction of which tells you the direction a small positive charged particle would experience the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-higher-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1062,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}