Definition:Electric Charge

Definition
Electric charge is a physical quantity of matter which causes it to experience a force when near other electrically charged matter.

It comes in two types, called positive and negative, and they interact as follows:


 * Two positively charged bodies repel each other.
 * Two negatively charged bodies repel each other.
 * Positively charged and negatively charged bodies are attracted to one another.

It is a scalar quantity which has been demonstrated to be quantized.