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**There is a link to this page in the Basic Quantities article.**

Electrostatics is the study of the forces between charged objects. The *statics* part of the name means the charges are not moving.

The examples collected here are the classic electrostatics configurations. Point charges, two examples of a line of charge, and a plane of charge. With just these simple geometries you will build up a good intuition about electric force.

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title:  Electrostatics
author: <NAME>
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Electrostatics is the study of the forces between charged objects. The *statics* part of the name means the charges are not moving.

The examples collected here are the classic electrostatics configurations. Point charges, two examples of a line of charge, and a plane of charge. With just these simple geometries you will build up a good intuition about electric force.

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![]({{ site.baseurl }}{% link i/article.svg %}) [Charge]({{ site.baseurl }}{% link _articles/charge.md %})

![]({{ site.baseurl }}{% link i/article.svg %}) [Electric force and Coulomb's Law]({{ site.baseurl }}{% link _articles/electric-force.md %})

![]({{ site.baseurl }}{% link i/article.svg %}) [Inverse square law - the fable of the butter gun]({{ site.baseurl }}{% link _articles/inverse-square-law.md %})

![]({{ site.baseurl }}{% link i/article.svg %}) [Line of charge - test charge off the end]({{ site.baseurl }}{% link _articles/line-of-charge.md %})
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