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WORKSHEET 1 Electric Field

This document is a worksheet for a senior high school general physics class focusing on electric fields using PhET simulations. It includes instructions for exploring electric and magnetic fields, conducting experiments with charges, and answering guide questions related to electric field patterns and strengths. The worksheet emphasizes the relationship between charge distance, magnitude, and electric field strength, as well as the superposition principle in electric fields.

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WORKSHEET 1 Electric Field

This document is a worksheet for a senior high school general physics class focusing on electric fields using PhET simulations. It includes instructions for exploring electric and magnetic fields, conducting experiments with charges, and answering guide questions related to electric field patterns and strengths. The worksheet emphasizes the relationship between charge distance, magnitude, and electric field strength, as well as the superposition principle in electric fields.

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LAGUNA COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND

ARTS
BASIC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
PACUCOA Accredited
GENERAL PHYSICS 2
WORKSHEET 1
Date: 03-24-2025
Section: Intuitive
Name: Loraine A. Branuevo

Activity Title: Exploring Electric Fields with PhET Simulations


(https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/charges-and-fields)
Materials:
o Computer with internet access
o PhET simulation (choose one to focus on electric and/or magnetic fields)
o Student worksheet

Part 1: Getting Started


Accessing the Simulations: Go to the PhET Interactive Simulations website
(https://phet.colorado.edu/). Search for and open the "Charges and Fields" simulation
and the "Magnet and Compass" simulation.

Familiarizing Yourself: Spend a few minutes exploring each simulation. Click on


buttons, move the objects, and see what happens. Don't worry about understanding
everything right away; just get a feel for how the simulations work.

Part 2: Electric Fields


1. Exploring Charges: In the "Charges and Fields" simulation, place a single positive
charge in the workspace. Observe the electric field lines that appear. Describe the
pattern in your worksheet.
2. Adding Charges: Add a second positive charge. What happens to the field lines?
Record your observations. Now add a negative charge. How does this change the
field? Record your observations. Experiment with different combinations of positive
and negative charges, noting the changes in the field lines.
3. Distance and Strength: Place a single positive charge. Observe the field lines at
different distances from the charge. How does the density of the field lines change
with distance? What does this tell you about the field strength?
4. Reflecting on Electric Fields: In your worksheet, answer the questions provided
about electric fields.

Guide Questions:

1. Describe the electric field pattern around a single positive charge. How does it
differ from the pattern around a single negative charge?

-A positive charge makes an invisible force field around it that spreads out in
all directions. The arrows in this field point outward because a positive
charge pushes things away. A negative charge does the opposite, the arrows
point toward it because it pulls things in.
LAGUNA COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND
ARTS
BASIC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
PACUCOA Accredited
2. What happens to the electric field when you place two positive charges close
together? What about two negative charges? Explain your observations.

-When you put two positive charges close together, their fields push against
each other, making the arrows bend outward. This happens because like
charges don’t like to be near each other, they repel! The same thing
happens with two negative charges. Even though their arrows point inward,
the field still bends outward, showing that negative charges also push each
other away.

3. How does the distance from a charge affect the strength of the electric field at that
point? Explain how you can tell from the simulation.
4.
-The closer you are to a charge, the stronger its electric field. If you move
farther away, the field gets weaker. You can use yellow sensors in the
simulation to measure how strong the field is. When you put the sensor near
a charge, the number is big, showing a strong force. But when you move it
away, the number gets smaller, meaning the force is weaker.

5. If you add more charges, how does this affect the overall electric field? Describe
the superposition principle as it relates to electric fields.

-When you have multiple charges, they all work together to create a total
electric field. Each charge adds to the field in its own way if they push in the
same direction, the field gets stronger, but if they push in opposite
directions, they can cancel each other out a little or completely. The final
field you get is just the sum of all these individual effects. This idea is called
the superposition principle, explains how electric fields mix and interact
when more than one charge is involved.

6. How does the simulation allow you to measure the electric field strength?

-In the PhET simulation, you can use the yellow sensor to check how strong
the electric field is around a charge. If you place the sensor close to the
charge, the number it shows is big, meaning the field is really strong there.
But as you move it farther away, the number gets smaller, showing that the
field is getting weaker. You can also look at the arrows in the simulation,
when the field is strong, the arrows are long, and when it's weak, the arrows
are short.

7. How does the measured electric field strength relate to the distance from the
charge(s)?
LAGUNA COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND
ARTS
BASIC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
-The electric field gets weaker the farther
PACUCOA you go. When you’re really close
Accredited
to the charge, you can feel its force a lot. But as you move away, the force
spreads out and gets weaker, so it doesn’t have as much effect on things
far away.

8. How does the measured electric field strength relate to the magnitude of the
charge(s)?
-The magnitude of a charge directly impacts the strength of its electric
field. A smaller charge generates a weaker field, while a larger charge
creates a stronger one. This means that higher-magnitude charges exert a
greater influence on their surroundings compared to smaller ones.

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