You can see that moving parallel to these conducting plates is mostly moving along an equipotential line. Looking at these lines can give you an idea about the electric field in this region.

How do you make a constant electric field? The most common way is with a parallel plate capacitor. If you get to plates near each other and connect one plate to one terminal of a battery and the ...

A new study shows that the Earth’s electric field can propel these flying spiders ... those found in nature by installing charged metal plates — electrodes — on the bottom and the top ...

English physicist and chemist Michael Faraday, who coincidently worked with electric eels in 1838, gave us a convenient way to visualize the problem: The eel’s electric field is a so-called ...