electric field: References & Edit History
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| Add new Web site: Physics LibreTexts - Electric Charges and Fields. | Oct 09, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Electric field. | May 28, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: IOPscience - Journal of Physics: Conference Series - Electric Field Measurement Techniques and Their Practical Applications (PDF). | Sep 17, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Electric Charges and Fields (PDF). | Jul 04, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Physics LibreTexts - Electric Fields. | May 24, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: OpenStax - Physics - Electric Field. | Nov 22, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Lehman College - The Electric Field. | Nov 12, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The University of Texas at Austin - Department of PPhysics - Electric Potential and Electric Field. | Jul 05, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The University of Hawaiʻi Pressbooks - College Physics chapters 1-17 - Electric Field : Concept of a Field Revisited. | Jun 26, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Pressbooks Create - Introduction to Physics - Electric Field. | May 03, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Central Florida Pressbooks - Electric Field. | Aug 22, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Boston University - Physics Department - Electric Field. | Jul 11, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Physics Classroom - Electric Field and the Movement of Charge. | May 05, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Electric field. | Jan 27, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Mustansiriyah University - The Electric Field (PDF). | Sep 14, 2022 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Jan 07, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: HyperPhysics - Electric Field. | Feb 09, 2018 | ||
| Modified definition of electric field. Added that electric force is also called the Coulomb force and that electric field lines can form closed loops. | Oct 12, 2010 | ||
| Added new Web site: Hyperphysics - Electric Field. | May 22, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Hyperphysics - Electric field. | Apr 07, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Hyperphysics - Electric Field. | May 31, 2007 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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