Electricity is the name given to a wide range of electrical phenomena that, in one form or another, underlie just about everything around us.

Electrostatics involves electrical charges, the forces between them, the aura that surrounds them, and their behavior in materials.

Electricity & Electrostatics.

Inside every piece of matter are atoms. Positive and negative charges held together by the enormous attraction of electrical force. By forming compact and evenly mixed clusters of positives and negatives, the huge electrical forces have balanced themselves out almost perfectly. When two or more atoms join to form a molecule, the molecule also contains balanced positives and negatives. And when trillions of molecules combine to form a speck of matter, the electrical forces balance again. Between two pieces of ordinary matter, there is scarcely any electrical attraction or repulsion at all, because each piece contains equal numbers of positives and negatives.