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  2. Oil drop experiment - Wikipedia

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    The plates were oriented horizontally, with one plate above the other. A mist of atomized oil drops was introduced through a small hole in the top plate and was ionized by x-rays, making them negatively charged. First, with zero applied electric field, the velocity of a falling droplet was measured.

  3. Double layer forces - Wikipedia

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    Pictorial representation of two interacting charged plates across an electrolyte solution. The distance between the plates is abbreviated by h. The most popular model to describe the electrical double layer is the Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) model. This model can be equally used to evaluate double layer forces.

  4. Electric field - Wikipedia

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    Assuming infinite planes, the magnitude of the electric field E is: =, where ΔV is the potential difference between the plates and d is the distance separating the plates. The negative sign arises as positive charges repel, so a positive charge will experience a force away from the positively charged plate, in the opposite direction to that in ...

  5. Paschen's law - Wikipedia

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    The intensity of the electric field for this gap is therefore 3.4 MV/m. The electric field needed to arc across the minimal-voltage gap is much greater than what is necessary to arc a gap of one metre. At large gaps (or large pd) Paschen's Law is known to fail. The Meek Criteria for breakdown is usually used for large gaps.

  6. Displacement current - Wikipedia

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    No actual charge is transported through the vacuum between its plates. Nonetheless, a magnetic field exists between the plates as though a current were present there as well. One explanation is that a displacement current I D "flows" in the vacuum, and this current produces the magnetic field in the region between the plates according to ...

  7. List of electromagnetism equations - Wikipedia

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    Position vector r is a point to calculate the electric field; r′ is a point in the charged object. Contrary to the strong analogy between (classical) gravitation and electrostatics, there are no "centre of charge" or "centre of electrostatic attraction" analogues. [citation needed] Electric transport

  8. Electric displacement field - Wikipedia

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    In physics, the electric displacement field (denoted by D), also called electric flux density, is a vector field that appears in Maxwell's equations. It accounts for the electromagnetic effects of polarization and that of an electric field , combining the two in an auxiliary field .

  9. Electron mobility - Wikipedia

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    At low fields, the drift velocity v d is proportional to the electric field E, so mobility μ is constant. This value of μ is called the low-field mobility. As the electric field is increased, however, the carrier velocity increases sublinearly and asymptotically towards a maximum possible value, called the saturation velocity v sat.