Electricity and magnetism basics - Electronics Area https://electronicsarea.com Electrical and Electronics Tutorials and Circuits Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:43:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.26 Coulomb’s Law – Electrostatic Force – Formula – Example https://electronicsarea.com/coulombs-law-electrostatic-force/ https://electronicsarea.com/coulombs-law-electrostatic-force/#respond Thu, 21 May 2026 22:09:03 +0000 http://electronicsarea.com/?p=288 Coulomb's Law—Electrostatic Force: Formula and example. Learn how to calculate the electrostatic force between 2 electric charges using Coulomb's Law.

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]]> https://electronicsarea.com/coulombs-law-electrostatic-force/feed/ 0 Structure of Matter: The Bohr Atom and the Electricity https://electronicsarea.com/structure-matter-bohr-atom-electricity/ https://electronicsarea.com/structure-matter-bohr-atom-electricity/#respond Thu, 21 May 2026 16:33:21 +0000 http://electronicsarea.com/?p=1842 Structure of Matter: The Bohr Atom and Electricity. The atom, the electron. Positive and negative ions. How free valence electrons become electricity

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]]> https://electronicsarea.com/structure-matter-bohr-atom-electricity/feed/ 0 Electric Field: Lines of Force and Electric Field Unit https://electronicsarea.com/electric-field/ https://electronicsarea.com/electric-field/#respond Thu, 21 May 2026 15:29:40 +0000 http://electronicsarea.com/?p=305 If the electric field at a given point is known, the electrostatic force on a charge Q at that point can be found. If a charge Q is subject to an electrostatic force, an electric field exists.

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]]> https://electronicsarea.com/electric-field/feed/ 0 Second Right-Hand Rule – Electromagnetism https://electronicsarea.com/second-right-hand-rule-electromagnetism/ https://electronicsarea.com/second-right-hand-rule-electromagnetism/#respond Fri, 05 Apr 2019 02:28:22 +0000 https://electronicsarea.com/?p=4973 Second Right-Hand Rule. When a current flows through a conductive wire, a non-visible effect called the electromagnetic field is generated around it.

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]]> https://electronicsarea.com/second-right-hand-rule-electromagnetism/feed/ 0 First Right Hand Rule https://electronicsarea.com/first-right-hand-rule/ https://electronicsarea.com/first-right-hand-rule/#respond Mon, 04 Mar 2019 19:50:07 +0000 https://electronicsarea.com/?p=4839 The First Right-hand Rule or (Magnetic Force induced on a Current-Carrying Wire) says that if a current-carrying wire is in the presence of a magnetic field, a force is exerted on the wire.

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]]> https://electronicsarea.com/first-right-hand-rule/feed/ 0 What’s Static Electricity? – Examples https://electronicsarea.com/static-electricity/ https://electronicsarea.com/static-electricity/#respond Tue, 16 Oct 2018 21:00:48 +0000 http://electronicsarea.com/?p=178 Static electricity is static, since it is a current that is going nowhere. Both, DC and AC current flow in some direction, but static electricity does not.

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]]> https://electronicsarea.com/static-electricity/feed/ 0 Magnetic Field – Magnetic Field Lines https://electronicsarea.com/magnetic-field-magnetic-field-lines/ https://electronicsarea.com/magnetic-field-magnetic-field-lines/#respond Mon, 15 Oct 2018 17:36:22 +0000 https://electronicsarea.com/?p=4675 Magnets. Charges in motion (electric current) behave like magnets (produce magnetic fields)

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]]> https://electronicsarea.com/magnetic-field-magnetic-field-lines/feed/ 0 What is an electric charge? https://electronicsarea.com/electric-charge/ https://electronicsarea.com/electric-charge/#respond Sat, 30 May 2015 01:16:55 +0000 http://electronicsarea.com/?p=1789 The electron (or proton, since they have the same charge) is the basic unit of electric charge. We can therefore consider the electron as the elementary unit of electric charge.

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]]> https://electronicsarea.com/electric-charge/feed/ 0 Polarization of a conducting material https://electronicsarea.com/polarization-of-a-conducting-material/ https://electronicsarea.com/polarization-of-a-conducting-material/#respond Tue, 09 Sep 2014 01:37:14 +0000 http://electronicsarea.com/?p=314 If an electric field is close to a metallic body, part of it is positively charged and other part negatively charged

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]]> https://electronicsarea.com/polarization-of-a-conducting-material/feed/ 0 Positive and Negative Charges: Electrons, Protons, Neutrons https://electronicsarea.com/positive-and-negative-charges/ https://electronicsarea.com/positive-and-negative-charges/#respond Tue, 09 Sep 2014 01:24:04 +0000 http://electronicsarea.com/?p=300 If a body has more electrons than protons, it is negatively charged. If it has more protons than electrons it is positively charged

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