# Simulator for electrostatics [closed]

I am searching for a tool that visualizes the electric field/potential for simple electrostatic configurations like

• conducting/polarized sphere in an uniform electric field
• conducting/polarized sphere in a field generated by some simple charge density (like e.g. finite line charge)

I did a search on the internet but did not find anything useful. Does someone know such a tool (preferably for Linux). Thanks a lot.

-
Try Robin Hood Solver at www.artcalc.com. It is designed for electrostatic simulations you described and much more complex ones. –  ahrvoje Feb 12 at 15:09

## closed as too broad by Brandon Enright, dmckee♦Feb 12 at 16:16

There are either too many possible answers, or good answers would be too long for this format. Please add details to narrow the answer set or to isolate an issue that can be answered in a few paragraphs.If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.

I've used Paul Falstad's applets for classes I've taught. He has some very impressive visualizations there including some that you don't see often (like the magnetic vector potential). He always links to the Java source code, so if you can program, it'll give you a good base to start with.

Check out http://www.falstad.com/vector3de/ for an example.

-
There are lot of visualizations available on mathematica demonstration site.