Electric Field Introduction

Description:

An electric charge has a characteristic of attracting or repelling other charged particles in its vicinity.

If there is a source charge(Q) and a test charge(q) is brought near it, then the source charge(Q) either repels the charge q in the direction away from itself (if  Q and q are similar in nature) or attracts it in the direction towards itself (if  Q and q are opposite in nature). The force exerted is in the same line joining the two charges.

A charged particle exerts force on another charge due to its effect in space. So the entire region where a charge shows its effect is called its field.

Electric Field −

Electric field is an effect in the space due to which a charge experiences force.