>Chapter 14 Electric field
An electric field is a kind of matter by means of which a force action is carried out on electric charges located in this field. The characteristics of the electric field generated by biological structures are a source of information about the state of the body.
§ 14.1. INTENSITY AND POTENTIAL AS CHARACTERISTICS OF ELECTRIC FIELD
The force characteristic of an electric field is its intensity equal to the ratio of the force acting at a given point of the field on a point charge, to the value of the charge: