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Faraday introduced a visual and intuitive way of representing electric fields using so-called field lines. These lines allow us to imagine how the electric field is distributed and where it acts in the space around the electric charges.

A field line is defined so that, at each point on it, its direction is tangent to the direction of the electric field vector existing at that location. This means that if a positive test charge were to move under the action of the field, it would tend to move in the orientation indicated by these lines.

The density of the lines also provides information about the intensity of the field: where the lines are closer together the field is stronger, and where they appear further apart the field is weaker. Furthermore, the lines leave the positive charges and end at the negative charges, visually showing the structure of the electric field.

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