{"id":23110,"date":"2020-05-23T23:17:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T03:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=23110"},"modified":"2020-05-23T23:17:39","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T03:17:39","slug":"level-surface-of-electric-potential-generated-by-a-figure-8-knot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=23110","title":{"rendered":"Level surface of electric potential generated by a Figure 8 knot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Imagine a knotted wire with electric charge distributed uniformly along it. What do the equipotential surfaces around it look like? The animation below, by my student Max Lipton, shows one  example. We\u2019re also studying how many zeros exist in the electric field around the knot. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0gr6oPERzx\">https:\/\/t.co\/0gr6oPERzx<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Steven Strogatz (@stevenstrogatz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stevenstrogatz\/status\/1263985640980598784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematiques","category-physique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23111,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23110\/revisions\/23111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}