Physics A-Level
Electric field
What Electric field means in Physics A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definitions of Electric field
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One of a number of forms of field giving rise to a force, existing around any charged object and exerting a force on any other charge placed in it.
A region in which a charged object experiences a force, existing because charge is present.
Topics that use Electric field
- Coulomb’s law (OCR A-Level)
- Point and spherical charges (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Electric field strength
- Direction and strength from field lines
- Electrostatic force between point charges
- Field
- Inverse-square law
- Rules for drawing field diagrams
- Vector nature of electrostatic force
- Vector nature of field strength
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