ABSTRACT
This chapter examines two important phenomena, electricity and magnetism and show how these two phenomena combine to give rise to electromagnetism. Electricity and magnetism have been known to mankind since ancient times. The chapter also examines two fundamental quantities, charge and current, and the relationship between these two quantities. There are four fundamental quantities in nature: mass, length, time, and charge. Like other quantities, charge also preserves the principle of conservation which implies that charge can neither be created nor destroyed. The unit for charge is the coulomb, named after the scientist who quantified the force between charges. The chapter focuses on the concept of static fields, viz., electrostatic and magnetostatic fields. It describes a quantity as static quantity when it does not change with respect to time, for example, static charge. The charge residing inside a closed surface is proportional to the electric field emanating from the surface.
