Tuesday, January 23, 2018

electrostatics - Why is electric field lines away from (+) and toward (-)?


I have a questions about the electric field lines. enter image description here


Well in the basic learning, we know that:



  1. The electric field lines extend away from a positive charge

  2. They move forward a negative charge


Let's take parallel plates, which make a uniform electric field.If we take the basic learning, which I mentioned, in accounts, it's very easy to understand that this is the direction of a positive charge object if we put the object between the plate (move away the positive charged plate and toward negatively charged plate).


The problem is if we put a negative charged object between. Isn't the electric field reversed ?




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