What is an electrical field?

Answer 1

If you mean an electric field it is the field that surrounds an electric charge. If you have two parallel plates with positive and negative charges, the amount of electric field in the space between the plates is the voltage difference divided by the distance.

Electric field E is measured in volts per metre.

Answer 2

any plain of area containing or exposed to, or effect by significant amounts of electricity. a magnetic field is any area that is effected by something producing magnetism. The space inside of a plasma ball decoration could be considered an electrical field. because it is directly exposed to significant amounts of electricity. the space between the two probes of a Jacobs ladder could be considered an electrical field because its an area that electicity passes through in its case air. When an electric eel discharges is electrical shock, any area of water that is effected by this discharge is also an electrical field during this occurance.

Answer 3

The electric field is something that exists throughout all space, and only charges can interact with it.

The electric field is something used to help describe 'action at a distance'.

Imagine two charges separate from each other, both charges experience a force, however they are not touching. The electric field is needed to describe why they experience a force.

The electric field strength is defined as the force experienced per charge Q, sitting in that field.
E=F/Q

The electric flux can be seen much like a flux of water.
Here the flux (flow) of water is the amount of water passing through an area.

Just as with water, the electric flux is the amount of electric field passing through an area.
The stronger the electric field - the higher the flux, per unit area.
Imagine flux as a flow of the electric field.

Flux = E*A

Answer 4

The electric field is defined as the force per unit positive charge that would be experienced by a stationary point charge at a given location in the field.