Electric Field Lines Around A Negative Charge

Electric field is a vector quantity whose direction is defined as the direction that a positive test charge would be pushed when placed in the field.

Electric field lines around a negative charge.

Thus the electric field direction about a positive source charge is always directed away from the positive source. Electric field lines never cross each other. Electric field lines always extend from a positively charged object to a negatively charged object from a positively charged object to infinity or from infinity to a negatively charged object. An electric field line is in general a curve drawn in such a way that the tangent to it ateach point is the direction of net field at that point.

Field lines around the system of two positive. Field lines must begin on positive charges and terminate on negative charges or at infinity in the hypothetical case of isolated charges. For the field lines to either start or end at infinity a single charge must be used. The number of field lines leaving a positive charge or entering a negative charge is proportional to the magnitude of the charge.

The properties of electric field lines for any charge distribution are that. Electric field lines always point away from a positive charge and towards a negative point. Electric field lines attraction and repulsion. An electric field is a region of space around an electrically charged particle or object in which an electric charge would feel force.

Electric field lines are most dense around objects with the greatest amount of charge. And the electric field direction about a negative source charge is always. The lines are defined as pointing radially outward away from a positive charge or radially inward.