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The branch of physics that deals with static electricity
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electrostatics
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n. the branch of physics that deals with static electricity
Wiktionary
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n. (context physics English) the branch of physics that deals with static electricity; that is, with the force exerted by an unchanging electric field upon a charged object
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framed|Paper strips attracted by a charged CD Electrostatics is a branch of physics that deals with the phenomena and properties of stationary or slow-moving electric charges . Since classical physics , it has been known that some materials such as amber ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Electrostatics \E*lec`tro*stat"ics\, n. (Physics) That branch of science which treats of statical electricity or electric force in a state of rest.
Usage examples of electrostatics.
For as the science of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries progressed, the mechanics of point masses was extended to describe gravitation, electrostatics, the behavior of rigid bodies, then of continuous deformable media, and so to fluids and things like kinetic theories of heat.
Interactions between magnetic fields and electric charges produced forces acting in directions other than the straight connecting line between the sources, and which, unlike the case in gravitation and electrostatics, depended on the velocity of the charged body as well as its position.