Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The physics of electrostatic phenomena.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The science which treats of the phenomena of statical electricity (see
electricity ), as the mutual attractions or repulsions of electrified bodies, the measurement and distribution of charges of electricity, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physics) That branch of science which treats of statical electricity or electric force in a state of rest.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun physics the
branch ofphysics that deals withstatic electricity ; that is, with theforce exerted by anunchanging electric field upon acharged object
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the branch of physics that deals with static electricity
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Examples
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Any smaller and you have to start to take into account interparticle forces such as electrostatics and Van der Waals.
Slashdot: Science 2009
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So according to Anaconda, then Gauss's Laws for electrostatics and magnostatics must be; rho/ epsilon0 = 0, where rho is the charge density and epsilon0 is the permittivity.
Could a Black Hole Fit in Your Computer or In Your Pocket? | Universe Today 2009
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There's more to electrostatics than this, of course, but in any case it's an approximation … and its domain of applicability is environments in which there are no magnetic fields or electric currents actually, that any such that there are are constant – do not vary with time – or change only very slowly.
Could a Black Hole Fit in Your Computer or In Your Pocket? | Universe Today 2009
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Last year mine sucked on electrostatics, this year I broke it up into two pieces, spent more time on each piece and they STILL sucked at it.
Good Test Dr. Lisa 2007
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Students at Northeastern University in Boston have created an interactive interface that harnesses electrostatics to give you 3D control just by waving your hand in front of a computer.
Mobilize your personal static electricity for a hands-free 3D gestural interface Bettina Tizzy 2009
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Or have you decided to rewrite electrostatics as well as electromagnetism?
Could a Black Hole Fit in Your Computer or In Your Pocket? | Universe Today 2009
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Students at Northeastern University in Boston have created an interactive interface that harnesses electrostatics to give you 3D control just by waving your hand in front of a computer.
Archive 2009-05-01 Bettina Tizzy 2009
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In 1907 Cottrell applied electrostatics to a different process: a successful court suit filed by Solano County, California, against the Selby Smelting and Lead Company required the smelter to clean up its sulfurous smoke.
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I am learning a great deal of electrostatics in consequence of the perpetual cross-examination to which I am subjected.
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He deposited the soggy ants back onto the medicine-ball-sized planet, his hands tingling from the electrostatics that served in place of gravity on the small sphere.
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