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This Demonstration shows plots of the orbits of a test charge in the field of a charged ring for different initial conditions.

The potential is

with

where

is the charge,

is the permittivity of free space,

is the radius of the circle, and

is the complete elliptic integral of the first kind.

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Orbit of a Test Charge in the Field of a Charged Ring