Electrostatics
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Charge
One of the basic properties of the elementary particles of matter giving rise to all electric and magnetic forces and interactions
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Electrostatic charge
Electric charge at rest on the surface of an insulated body
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Electric Force Field
The region around a charged particle or object in which it exerts a force on other charged particles or objects
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The direction of the electric field (at a point)
The direction that a positive test charge would move if placed at that point
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Electrostatic Force
The force exerted by non-moving (static) charges on each other
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Basic Law of Electrical Charges
Like charges repel each other while unlike charges attract each other
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Law of Conservation of Charge
The net charge of an isolated system remains constant
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