Question

Who invented electrostatics?

Answer 1

1. The branch of physics that deals with the study of electric charges at rest is known as electrostatics.
2. Although the concept of static charge has been there for a while, a concrete understanding of the subject came after the formulation of Coulomb's law by a French physicist by the name of Charles-Augustin de Coulomb.
3. According to Coulomb's law, the magnitude of the electrostatic force between two charged particles is given by the expression, $F=k\frac{q_1{q}_2}{r^2}$. Here, $k$ is the electrostatic constant, $q_1$ and $q_2$ are the charges of the particles and $r$ is the distance between them.