Answer to Question #167207 in Electricity and Magnetism for Satyam

Question

Explain electric field

Answer 1

An electric field is a vector field because it is responsible for conveying the information for a force, which involves both magnitude and direction. This field consists of a distribution of electric field vectors $\vec{E}$ , one for each point in the space around a charged object. The electric field at any point is defined to be the electric force per unit charge at that point:

$\vec{E} = \frac{\vec{F_E}}{q}$