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MIT Physics 8.02 - Electricity & Magnetism
 
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SECTION : Electrostatics      

  
SUBJECT: Scattering of Charges with Same Sign  
 
DESCRIPTION:

An animation of the motion of a positive charge moving past a massive charge which is also positive. The smaller charge is deflected away from the larger charge because of their mutual repulsion. This repulsion is primarily due to a pressure transmitted by the electric fields surrounding the charges.

 

 

 

   
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