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And so. Hello, you're listening to The Science of Everything podcast, episode 43,

Electric Fields and Forces, and I'm your podcast, episode 43, electric fields and forces,

and I'm your host, James Fodor. In this episode, we're going to have a look at the basic concepts of electric charges, electric fields, and electric forces. I'll talk about how, what are

charged particles, how charged particles interact with each other via something called Kulom's Law.

I'll talk about electros's Law. I'll talk about

electroscopes. I'll talk about batteries. I'll talk about voltage, potential difference,

electric potential energy, and many other important foundational concepts in understanding

electricity. The recommended prerequisite for this episode is episode 9, matter and molecules. Without

further ado, let's begin. So first of all, some basics on electricity and electric charge.

The electromagnetic force, which is what we're going to be talking about throughout this episode,

and also some sequels to this, is one of the four fundamental forces of nature.

It's also the one that's most important for our sort of everyday existence and interaction.

So of the four fundamental forces of nature, two of them, the strong and the weak

nuclear forces, are only relevant at subatomic scales, and so we don't really observe

them directly.

They're relevant to things like radioactivity and quantum mechanics, but apart from that,

they don't really directly intervene in our sort of everyday life.

The third is gravity, which is very important in terms of, you know,

dropping objects and aircraft flying and the planets orbiting the sun and so forth. But by far,

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