Electrostatics

A topic within Electromagnetism, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Physics.

Reading on Electrostatics

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Experiments and Observations on Electricity

Benjamin Franklin

Reports the kite experiment and lightning-rod work that established electricity as a single fluid moving between charged bodies, founding empirical electrostatics.

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An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism

George Green

Introduces the mathematical potential function and what became Green's theorem to solve electrostatic problems, founding potential theory as the language of the field.

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Reading on Electrostatics

Experiments and Observations on Electricity

An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism

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