ElectriPy ⚡

Visualize the electric field of a point charges network.

🔌 Installation

Install Pygame and ElectriPy package:

$ pip install pygame
$ pip install electripy

You are all done! To start the simulation type:

$ python -m electripy

NOTE: you need to have Python and pip installed.

🔌 Controls

• right click to add an electron
• left click to add a proton
• CTRL + Z to remove last charge added
• CTRL + Y to add last charge removed
• R to remove all charges from screen
• E to show/hide the electric field
• + to increment the electric field brightness
• - to decrement the electric field brightness
• F to show/hide electric force vectors
• M to show/hide electric field vector at cursor position
• SPACE to show/hide vectors components

🔌 Physics

You can check out a simple explanation of the physics used to make ElectriPy HERE.