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Published Software

EM Field, by D. Trowbridge and B. Sherwood, Physics Academic Software
(The "fields" program in the free 3D software below is a partial replacement for EM Field.)

Electric Field Hockey, by R. Chabay, Physics Academic Software

Free Software:

The work below is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. Please read the license before downloading the software.

3D Software

Electric & Magnetic Interactions: The Movies, by R. Chabay

Lecture-demonstration programs for E&M have been written by R. Chabay using VPython, based on the Python programming language. There are some additional E&M programs included in the demo suite distributed with VPython. Our students are now doing real-time 3D graphics programming with VPython.

2D Software

Spark and String, by B. Sherwood (for Macintosh) (for Windows)
(Steps in spark formation; Standing waves on a string.)