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Two 1 nC point positive charges are located at (-1, 0, 0) m and (1, 0, 0) m respectively. Write a MATLAB script to plot the magnitude of the electric field vector on the X axis between (-0.9, 0, 0) m and (0.9, 0, 0) m. Use the ‘plot’ command in MATLAB and use a spacing of 0.1 m between points along the X axis (Hint: x = -0.9:0.1:0.9). Ensure that you label the axes with appropriate units

[Walter Roberson]

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[Steven Lord]

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Answer 1

[Meg Noah]

Two Charges

% Two 1 nC point positive charges are located at (-1, 0, 0) m and (1, 0, 0) m respectively. 
% Write a MATLAB script to plot the magnitude of the electric field vector 
% on the X axis between (-0.9, 0, 0) m and (0.9, 0, 0) m. 
% Use the ‘plot’ command in MATLAB and use a spacing of 0.1 m between 
% points along the X axis (Hint: x = -0.9:0.1:0.9). 
% Ensure that you label the axes with appropriate units

ke = 8.9875e9; % N·m2/C2 Coulomb's constant
% list of particle charge values
q = [1e-9;1e-9];    % [C]
% list of particle positions
p = [-1;1];         % [m]
x = -0.9:0.1:0.9;   % [m]
E = zeros(size(x)); % [V/m]
% by superposition - add all the fields from all the charges
ncharges = length(q);
for icharge = 1:ncharges
    R = x - p(icharge,:);
    E = E + ke*q(icharge).*R./abs(R).^3;
end
figure();
plot(x,abs(E)); hold on;
plot(p(1),0,'*r');
plot(p(2),0,'*r');
box on; grid on;
ylabel('|E| [V/m]');
xlabel('X Position [m]');

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