Electric Charges and Fields

Question

What is an electric line of force? What is its importance?

Answer

An electric line of force is an imaginary straight or curved path along which a small positive test charge is supposed to move when free to do so.
The tangent at a point on an electric line of force gives the direction of the resultant electric field at that point.
The relative closeness of electric lines of force in a certain region provides us an estimation of the electric field strength in that region.

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