How to Use electric field in a Sentence

electric field

noun

• But if there’s a sizable EDM, the electric field will use it to tug on the electron’s spin.
  — Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 10 Apr. 2023
• The Tesla coil creates an electric field which then lights up the bulbs.
  — Rollin Bishop, Popular Mechanics, 3 Aug. 2015
• When laser light hits a metal, the electrons, which are free to move around, chase the light's electric field.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2018
• The friction that builds up in storm clouds gives rise to an electric field extending to the ground.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 Aug. 2020
• Once the spiders were ballooning in the air, researchers turned the electric field off.
  — Lilly Price, USA TODAY, 6 July 2018
• By changing the voltage across the plates, the magnitude of the electric field will also change.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 3 Aug. 2021
• When the light wave hits this interface, the line along the peak of the electric field is distorted and forms a replica of the surface of the glass.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2018
• In this case, the electric field controlled the presence of lithium ions in the spaces in between layers of the MoS2.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 Dec. 2018
• An electric field then accelerates them and routes them out the back of the spacecraft.
  — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 29 July 2019
• The silver and zinc then generate a weak electric field that zaps pathogens on the surface.
  — Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 24 June 2020
• When the electrons reach the top, they are pulled out of the liquid by a stronger electric field and into a layer of gas on top of the liquid.
  — Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 29 July 2022
• Much as an electric field can overwhelm the weak force of gravity, so, too, can the warmth of a lonely atom.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 27 Sep. 2023
• The spark resulted from the kite/key system being in a strong electric field.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 May 2023
• In stormy weather, this electric field can reach thousands of volts per meter above the ground.
  — Renae Reints, Fortune, 6 July 2018
• So, as the light electric field changes amplitude and direction, the electrons feel the force of the field and are driven back and forth.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2018
• The researchers arranged a set of electrodes to recreate that electric field.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 11 Dec. 2018
• The other method is to heat up a material in an electric field.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 28 Jan. 2022
• The silver acts like a guide for the electromagnetic waves, helping to reduce the electric field at the top of the mug, shielding the heat.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 6 Aug. 2020
• For charge to move from the source to the drain, a voltage is applied to the gate, changing the electric field and the conductivity of the silicon.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Dec. 2023
• Hunting and his colleagues noticed that the electric field was greater when the swarm was thicker – more densely packed with bees.
  — Hafsa Khalil, CNN, 26 Oct. 2022
• The researchers apply that field using a very bright laser, which works because light has an electric field.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 1 June 2019
• This creates an electric field that grows until a gigantic spark jumps across the sky.
  — Thomas Lewton, Quanta Magazine, 20 Dec. 2021
• The magnetic field will create an electric field in the bottom of the cookware, and because of resistance the pan will heat up, even though the hob does not.
  — Kenneth McLeod, The Conversation, 23 Dec. 2020
• This can be done by applying a very large electric field to the semiconductor.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 1 June 2019
• With neither propellers nor jets, the airplane gets its thrust by applying a strong electric field to the air.
  — Malcolm Ritter, The Seattle Times, 21 Nov. 2018
• In this new view of Earth’s flow, a wave’s height corresponds to a magnetic field and its speed corresponds to an electric field.
  — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 18 July 2023
• The force of gravity is so weak that stray electric fields (from the electrical lines in the wall, for instance) will overwhelm any signal.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 6 Apr. 2020
• These electrons all create electric fields that push on the other electrons.
  — WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
• This is a method that replaces the complex and costly process of chemical doping with electric fields.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Mar. 2024
• Roughly speaking, bending the crystal causes the dipoles to align, creating a bulk electric field.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024