What is the difference between electrostatic and static electricity?

Answer 1

Zero.

Answer 2

Technically speakiing, they are different.

Electrical force is the force that acts on a charged particle resulting from an electric field.

If that field is not a time-varying field (like when the field is a result of the presence of static charges in space), then the force is electrostatic.

If that field is a result of a time-varying electromagnetic field, then the force is technically "electrodynamic" -- an electrical force that is not electrostatic.

So electrostatic force is a special case of electrical force. At introductory levels of physics, the terms tend to be used interchangably since the calculus of time varying fields is usually not in the student's arsenal of analysis techniques yet.

Answer 3

Electric field due to a charge is the space around the charge in which any other charge experience a force of attraction or repulsion.

Whereas, electric force is the electric field intensity and is defined as the force on a unit positive charge at any point in an electric field is the electric field intensity E at that point.

Answer 4

Actually, the only difference is that electrostatic is an adjective and static electricity is a noun. If you are describing something that has anything to do with static electricity, then you say that that thing is electrostatic. For example, an electrostatic furnace filter.

An electrostatic furnace filter utilizes static electricity to do its job.

Answer 5

Differences -- there are none.

Similarities -- every characteristic.

The Coulomb force is the electrostatic force.

Answer 6

Gravitational force is the force of attraction b/w any two particles having mass...bt electric field is the force bw two oppositively charged particles.

Answer 7

An electric force is the force on an electric charge or an electrically

charged object when immersed in an electric field.