REACTION PAPER ABOUT ELECTROSTATICS

Electrostatics is extremely important in everyday life. Electrostatics are used in photocopiers,

defibrillators, paint spraying, and electrostatic precipitators, among other things. The static
electric field created by static electric charges is studied in electrostatics, a branch of physics.
Electrostatics is also employed in agricultural tasks like plant spraying and seed sorting. In a
normal condition, all of an object's atoms have the same quantity of electrons and protons.
When one thing rubs against another, a few electrons from one object migrate to the other.
Electrons outnumber protons in the item that acquired more electrons. As a result, it takes on
a negative charge. In the same way, an item that contributes electrons loses a small number
of electrons and has fewer electrons than protons. As a result, it gains a positive charge.

Coulomb's law also played an important role in Electrostatics since it’s significant because it
allows us to determine the direction of electric fields caused by charges. Gauss's law is very
useful in calculating the electric field in case of problems where it is possible to construct a
closed surface. Gauss's law is true for any closed surface, no matter what its shape or size.
For a symmetrical distribution of charges, Gauss's law is utilized to calculate the electrical
field. The Law may be used to derive the electric field E without performing any hard integrals
for a highly symmetric structure of electric charges, such as a cylindrical or spherical
distribution of charges. All of these are needed to completely comprehend the understanding
of electrostatics.