🧭 Electric Field Lines — traced live, not drawn by hand
Every line is integrated from the actual field of the two charges. Beads flow along each line in the direction a positive charge would be pushed.
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Step 1 — two charges. Nothing drawn yet: predict which way a positive charge would be pushed.
Charge q₁
+3.0
Charge q₂
−3.0
Separation d
8.0
Lines per unit charge
3
lines from q₁:
15
· to q₂:
15
escaping to infinity:
0
→ net
0.0
null point at x =
—
line count ∝ |q| — that is Gauss's law, drawn
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