Q3: Electric Field Flashcards

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It is the region around an electrical charge particle where force is detected.

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electric field

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Imaginary lines drawn in a way that their direction at any point is the same as the direction of the field at that point.

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Electric Field Lines

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True or False:

The strength of electric field is a scalar quantity.

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False

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4 important properties of Electric Field

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  1. Lines start at a positively charged object and end at a negatively charged object
  2. Field lines must be tangent to the direction of the field at any point
  3. No two field lines from the same field can cross each other.
  4. The greater the line density, the greater the magnitude of the field.
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