For my senior year, the school sprang for a FORTRAN compiler to run on the business office NCR computer. My job was to run the students punch-card decks through the computer during the business office lunch hour. Spent an interim month learning to use FORTRAN as a language usage analysis tool, under tutelage of a Classic Languages professor.
electric forces can be attractive or repulsive, whereas gravitational forces are only attractive.
Electric Fields & Electric Field Lines. Electric Fields. Just like the force due to gravity, the force due to electric charges can act over great distances. â¢ Keep in mind that most forces we deal with in everyday life are âcontact forcesââ¦ objects. touch each other directly in order to exert a force on each other.