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Electric Field Hockey
| Play hockey with electric charges. Place charges on the ice, then hit start to try to get the puck in the goal. View the electric field. Trace the puck's motion. Make the game harder by placing walls in front of the goal. This is a clone of the popular simulation of the same name marketed by Physics Academic Software and written by Prof. Ruth Chabay of the Dept of Physics at North Carolina State University. |
Content
Main Topics
- Electricity
- Electric Charges
- Electric Field
Keywords
Sample Learning Goals
- Determine the variables that affect how charged bodies interact.
- Predict how charged bodies will interact.
- Describe the strength and direction of the electric field around a charged body.
- Use free-body diagrams and vector addition to help explain the interactions.
Teaching Ideas
| Title | Authors | Level | Type | Updated |
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Concept questions for Physics using PhET (Inquiry Based)
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Trish Loeblein | UG-Intro HS |
CQs | 8/1/09 |
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Static Magnetic and Electric unit (Inquiry Based)
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Trish Loeblein | HS | HW CQs Lab Demo |
8/2/09 |
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Electric Field Hockey Simulation Homework
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Kathy Perkins, Carl Wieman | UG-Intro UG-Adv |
HW | 11/14/08 |
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Introduction to Static Electricity using Electric Field Hockey and Charges and Fields (Inquiry Based)
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Trish Loeblein | HS | Lab CQs |
11/13/08 |
| Electrostatics Simulation lab | Pauline Seales | HS | Lab | 8/2/10 |
| Quest for the Coulomb Cup | Dean Baird, Paul Hewitt | MS HS |
Lab | 5/16/10 |
| E-Fields PhET Minilab | Chris Bires | UG-Intro HS |
Lab | 8/3/10 |
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Charges Activity with Various Simulations
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Kathy Perkins, Carl Wieman | HS UG-Intro |
CQs | 7/5/08 |
| Electric Field Hockey Homework | Joe Redish | UG-Intro | HW | 2/28/08 |
| Electric fields | Michael F. Gallo | UG-Intro | Lab | 2/8/08 |
| Electric Field Hockey Post-Game Analysis | Lucy Jameson | HS | Lab | 6/28/07 |
You can submit your own ideas and activities.
Software Requirements
| Windows | Macintosh | Linux |
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Microsoft Windows
XP/Vista/7 Sun Java 1.5.0_15 or later |
OS 10.4 or later
Sun Java 1.5.0_19 or later |
Sun Java 1.5.0_15 or later |
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Credits
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