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electrostatics
1. The study of the phenomena associated with electric charges at rest.
2. The study of electric fields produced by stationary source charges or, more precisely, a constant charge density at each point.
3. A branch of physics dealing with electric charges at rest and with objects charged with electricity and constant-intensity electric fields.
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