Electric field lines are a pictorial way of representing electric field around a configuration of charges.
- An electric field line is a curve drawn in such a way that the tangent to it at each point is in direction of the net field at that point.
- Electric field is inversely proportional to the square of the distance; hence electric field near the charge is high and keeps on decreasing as we go farther from the charge. The electric field lines, however, remain constant but are very far apart (at higher distances) as compared to lesser distance.
