What is the direction of the electric field due to a positive charge?
Correct Answer: Away from the charge
- Step 1: Understand what an electric field is. It is a region around a charged object where other charges experience a force.
- Step 2: Identify the type of charge we are discussing. In this case, it is a positive charge.
- Step 3: Remember that like charges repel and opposite charges attract. A positive charge will repel other positive charges.
- Step 4: Visualize the positive charge. Imagine it as a small sphere that is positively charged.
- Step 5: Since the positive charge repels other positive charges, the direction of the electric field is away from the positive charge.
- Step 6: Conclude that the electric field due to a positive charge points outward, away from the charge.
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