A body's electric charge alters the space which surrounds it. The magnitude which measures this alteration at a determined point is the intensity of the electric field at this point. It is defined as the force exerted on the unit of positive charge situated at this point. In the following visual you have a blue moving point; you will imagine that it has a charge of 1 Coulomb when you have created an electric field around it. 



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