Visualization of Electric Field Lines

 
 

  • Most textbooks display electric field lines in 2-D only
  • Fortran-90 program to calculate field lines in 3-D
  • Uses OpenGL graphics package for rendering images
 
 
Electric Dipole
Two Positive Charges
 
 
Electric Quadrupole
Click on any Figure to View Animation (1.5 MB AVI Files)  
 
 
 
Click for VRML model of field lines due to electric dipole.
Based on VRML model from University of Michigan
  
 
 
 
 
 
Electric Potential Contour Map
 
 
 
 
Electronic Copy of Document:
http://www.gac.edu/~huber/chromatek/electric.htm

Revised: 11-JUL-2000 by Tom Huber
Physics Department, Gustavus Adolphus College