Electric Field Lines | Physics
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Electric field lines visually represent the characteristics of electric fields, indicating direction and strength; they emanate from positive charges and terminate at negative charges. These lines are conservative, cannot intersect, and are denser in regions of stronger fields. The number of lines corresponds to field strength, and they do not pass through conductors.
Electric Field Lines | Physics
- 2. Definition Electric field lines describe the nature of electric field in pictorial form We can easily reveal direction, strength and other properties of electric field
- 3. Nature of electric field lines Electric field lines move away from positive charge and move towards negative charge Electric field lines are conservative in nature Electric field lines start from positive charge and terminate at negative charge If there is only one charge, then electric field terminate at infinity
- 4. Properties of Electric Charge Direction of electric field can be revealed by drawing tangents at a point Electric field lines can’t pass through a conductor Number of electric field lines is directly proportional to strength of electric field
- 5. Some more properties Electric field lines are closer where there is strong electric fields and far in case of weak electric fields Electric field never intersect each other, if this were so then a point will have two directions of electric field, which is not possible
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