Answer to Question #147498 in Electricity and Magnetism for Max

Question

What is electric field

Answer 1

In physics, we believe that all matter exists only in two states - substance and field. Fields can carry energy and interact with substance and other field via forces. There are only 4 fundamental forces in nature - gravitational, electromanetic, weak and strong.

Electric field is a field that exists around all charged bodies or appears when there is non stationary magnetic field. Every interaction with this field will go via electromagnetic force.