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15 Electrostatics
Chapter Outline
15.1 Static Electricity
15.2 COULOMB’SLAW
15.3 ELECTROSTATICFIELDS
15.4 REFERENCES
Most people have experienced some form of static electricity, but it is difficult to connect this to electricity that we
use every day in the modern world. In this chapter, we will study how electrical charges are split and transferred,
the force that electrical charges exert on each other, and how that force can be expressed as an electric field.