ANIMATIONS

Animations of Electric and Magnetic Fields Animations showing the electric and magnetic fields for various arangements of charges, currents, magnets, etc. have been developed for 8.02 by Prof. John Belcher. They are available to you at the following web sites.

You will find some of them on:

http://web.mit.edu/jbelcher/www/other.html

Additional animations appropriate for 8.02 at later times are available at:

http://web.mit.edu/jbelcher/www/anim.html

The following are animations appropriate to the current assignment. I urge you to look at them and to vary the parameters for greater insight. They are on the first of the two web sites above. Bring any questions about them to me (Professor Bradt), your recitation instructor, or your tutor.

Assignment #1:

Vector Addition

Superposition of Forces

Vector Field and Field Lines of Two Charges.