X-Nico

unusual facts about electric field



Duane–Hunt law

In an X-ray tube, electrons are accelerated in a vacuum by an electric field and shot into a piece of metal called the "target".

Lepton

It determines the strength of the electric field generated by the particle (see Coulomb's law) and how strongly the particle reacts to an external electric or magnetic field (see Lorentz force).

Particle-in-cell

The set of equations associated with PIC codes are therefore the Lorentz force as the equation of motion, solved in the so-called pusher or particle mover of the code, and Maxwell's equations determining the electric and magnetic fields, calculated in the (field) solver.

Screening effect

In solids, especially in metals and semiconductors, the electrostatic screening or screening effect reduces the electrostatic field and Coulomb potential of an ion inside the solid.


see also

Abram Ioffe

In 1911 he (independently of Millikan) determined the electron charge, using charged microparticles of metals balanced in electric field against gravity (published in 1913).

Classical field theory

Using this and Coulomb's law tells us that the electric field due to a single charged particle as

Deflection

Electrostatic deflection, a technique for modifying the path of charged particles by the use of an electric field

Dielectrophoresis

The electric field polarizes the particle, and the poles then experience a force along the field lines, which can be either attractive or repulsive according to the orientation on the dipole.

Electric potential energy

Using Coulomb's law, it is known that the electrostatic force F and the electric field E created by a discrete point charge Q are radially directed from Q.

Electric sail

It was invented by Pekka Janhunen from Finland in 2006 at the FMI and creates a "virtual" sail by forming an electric field on small wires.

Magnetorotational instability

This induced electric field can now itself induce further changes in the magnetic field \boldsymbol B according to Faraday's law,

Nitrogen laser

After some time the electric charge in the avalanche becomes so large that following Coulomb's law it generates an electric field as large as the external electric field.

Nonelectrostatic electric fields

The striking difference between the two kinds of fields is that we cannot associate electric potential with points in such an electric field and that the work done by the electric force in such a field is not zero over a closed loop.

Prokop Diviš

The news of the death of Georg Wilhelm Richmann, a professor in St. Petersburg, who was killed by lightning in 1753 during his attempt at measuring the intensity of the electric field in the atmosphere, caused Diviš to become interested in atmospheric electricity, and to the decision to construct a "weather-machine" at Přímětice.

Rashba effect

However, while this "toy model" is superficially convincing, the Ehrenfest theorem seems to suggest that since the electronic motion in the \hat{z} direction is that of a bound state that confines it to the 2D surface, the time-averaged electric field (i.e., including that of the potential that binds it to the 2D surface) that the electron experiences must be zero!

Thin film

Through the influence of electric field, the liquid coming out of the nozzle takes a conical shape (Taylor cone) and at the apex of the cone a thin jet emanates which disintegrates into very fine and small positively charged droplets under the influence of Rayleigh charge limt.