Physics GCSE
Field lines
What Field lines means in Physics GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Field lines
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Reference: OCR
Lines representing a field, whose direction shows the force on a positive charge and whose spacing shows the strength of the field.
Topics that use Field lines
- Static and charge (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- attraction and repulsion
- Charge carriers and transfer of electrons
- charge flow
- Charge flow and current
- closed circuit
- conservation of charge
- Current
- Current versus energy transfer
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