How to Use electric field in a Sentence

electric field

noun

• Then, the electric field is turned off and the stack cools down.
  — Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 16 July 2024
• 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
• To test their idea, the researchers modeled the electric field that quartz could produce when subjected to earthquakelike forces.
  — Kate Graham-Shaw, Scientific American, 2 Sep. 2024
• Inject deuterium gas and crank up the voltage to 200 kilovolts, and the electric field will yank electrons off some of the atoms to create deuterons and accelerate them toward the center of the contraption.
  — Adrian Cho, science.org, 18 July 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024