Electric Field

Electrical charges

Law of charges Coulombs Law

 What is electric field?

The electric field is the space around

an electrical charge.

just like

a gravitational field is the space around

a mass.
 What is electric field?
Electric fields are created by electric charges. Any object with a charge has a
field around it. Electric field is a space where a charge experiences a force.

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We represent electric field by using electric field lines.
1. Its direction
is a vector
2. How strong the field is quantity.
Equal but opposite direction

Electric field
lines never
intersect
Point Charges of Different Magnitudes

+
1

+ +

+
2
Electric Field Lines of Electric Field Lines of
two Positive Charges two Negative Charges
 What do you know?
Which field is stronger?

A B
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Positive point Charge
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What do you know?
 What do you know?

Charge A is___

a. Positive
b. Negative
c. unknown
 What do you know?

The magnitude of the

electric field at point
X is greater than at
point Y
a. True
b. False
c. unknown
What do you know?
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the electric field strength gets weaker with distance

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An object with a charge of -2C positioned in a uniformed electric field
experiences a force of -300N. What is the strength of the electric field?
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What is the force experienced by a .05 coulomb charge when it is placed in
an electric field with a strength of 3.0 x 103 newtons per coulomb?
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A test charge experiences a force .20 N on it when
placed in an electric field intensity of 4.5 x105 N/C.
What is the magnitude of the charge?
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What is the electric field strength at a point that is .30
meter to the right of a small sphere with a charge of -4
x 10-6 C?
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A test charge of +3µC is located 5m to the east of a -

4µC charge.
A) Find the electric force felt by the test charge.
B) Find the electric field at that location.