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electric field due to a single charge.
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What surrounds electric charges and exerts force on other charges?
An electric field surrounds the charge and exerts force on other charges.
An electric field has?
An electric field has both magnitude and direction and can be represented by lines of force, or field lines, that start on positive charges and terminate on negative charges.
Moving electric charges will interact with?
Moving electric charges will interact with an electric field. Moving electric charges will also interact with a magnetic field.
Is electricity a force?
Yes The electric force is a force by which electric charges act on each other; the electric field is the associated field.
Current is produced when charges are accelerated by an electric field to move to a position of lower what?
Current is produced when charges are accelerated by an electric field to move to a position of lower energy.
What surrounds electric charge and exerts force on other charges?
An electric field surrounds the charge and exerts force on other charges.
Can a negative electric field attracts negative charges?
No it cant
Is a magnetic field surrounded by moving electric charges?
yes
Does it take two or more charges to create an electric field?
no
What is the direction of electric field?
This question is impossible to answer because the force is dependant on the strength of the electric field. This will depend on how many other charges there are and how far away. The strength of an electric field is proportional to the number of charges and the inverse square of the distance. Strength of field = C x N / D2 where C is some constant, N is the number of charges (-ve will repel +ve will attract for and electron) and D is the distance between the electron and the charges creating the field.
A negatively charged object is placed within a positive electric field. what happens to the object?
Electric Field between positive and negative charges. If the Electric Field in which both the positive and negative charges are present is stronger than the Electric Field between the two charges we are talking about, the the negative charge will move away from the positive charge in that positive direction of the field. If not, then the negative charge will get attracted to the positive charge and stay at the position of the positive charge. It will be pulled toward the source of the electric field. (Novanet)
What type of magnetic field will produce an electric current in a wire?
A current carrying wire has a magnetic field around it but no electric field.There will be electric field around a body only if it has static electricity.In this wire, charges(electrons) are moving.The number of charges entering is equal to number of charges leaving the conductor.So it remains neutral.A neutral body cannot have an electric field around it. ACTUALLY, there IS also an electric field. A current is made up of moving charges, and all charges (moving or static) create an electric field. Materials that have a neutral charge are not good conductors and therefore would not have a current going through them in the first place.
