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1. The study of stationary electric charges or slow-moving electric charges or fields as opposed to
electric currents.
Cou·lomb's law
1. A law stating that like charges repels and opposite charges attract, with a force proportional to
the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between
them.
Vacuum permittivity= ε (epsilon) = 5= the electric constant= the ratio of charge that is permitted
on the surface of the conductor, per unit of electric field present in the vacuum.
Εo = q/E
E= F/q = a region around a charged particle or object within which a force would be exerted on other
charged particles or objects.