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piareround
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Hey physics forums
I was kind of curious if there how people measured electric field and of course guass's law before we had computers, so I talked to one of my professors about it. He told me that a long time ago people used something involving plates and soap bubbles to prove that guass's law was valid.
Does anyone have a way of physically showing and measuring guass's law without the need for computer, diode sensors, or calculator? Has anyone heard of this soap bubble method before?
I was kind of curious if there how people measured electric field and of course guass's law before we had computers, so I talked to one of my professors about it. He told me that a long time ago people used something involving plates and soap bubbles to prove that guass's law was valid.
Does anyone have a way of physically showing and measuring guass's law without the need for computer, diode sensors, or calculator? Has anyone heard of this soap bubble method before?