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ELECTRIC FIELD
A property of a patch of space which causes the acceleration of electric charges situated at that patch of space.
The acceleration is given by a = qE/m, where q is the charge, E the electricfield vector, and m the mass of the particle. Electric fields are generated by the presence of charges and/or the timevariation of magnetic fields