Modeling the electric field due to parallel plates with a BUNCH of points and python

I wanted to show that the electric field inside parallel plates is constant - BUT I didn't want to use calculus. Instead, I used 20,000 points and python.

Here is the code

[stephenvella]

I think the problem you were having in the original code was that you did not provide all the arguments to the function, hence they were undefined within the function. You only gave the vector E(ro) and not the list of points as well E(ro, qL, qR)

[jezza]

I love this... fantastic piece of work, thanks for putting this out there into the nerdosphere :)

[fizixx]

I liked it. This is very customizable and that makes it versatile, IMO. 🙂

[lionelmartinez]

Podrías hacer la misma animación pero que tuviera en cuenta los efectos de borde? gracias

[paaabl.]

Cool idea. Just iterative algorithms in plain python are terribly slow. You should use Numpy, at least.