Electricity and Magnetism

Electric Charge

1. Electric charge is a fundamental property of matter that causes it to experience a force in an electric field.
2. There are two types of charges: positive and negative.
3. Like charges repel each other, and unlike charges attract each other.
4. Charge is measured in coulombs (C).
5. Quantization of charge states that charge exists in discrete packets, as multiples of the elementary charge e (1.6 × 10^-19