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Defining an Electric Field
The charged metal dome creates an electric field.
What is an electric field?
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- 1 Defines an electric field as the region around a charged object in which another charged object experiences a force.
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An electric field is the region around a charged object where another charged object experiences a force.
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It is the force around an object.
This does not identify a region around a charged object or say that another charged object experiences the force.