A.what explanation is used today to explain how electrical forces are able to act upon objects at a distance?

Question

B.newton's theory explained electrical attraction at a distance.what kind of electrical phenomena at a distance did it fail to explain?how does the modern explanation you started in part (A) account for this second kind of action at a distance. ADD DETAILS:TO EXPLAIN THE ATTRACTION WHICH A RUBBED ROD OF AMBER EXERTED ON SMALL OBJECTS WHICH WERE SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM IT,ISAAC NEWTON SUGGESTED THAT THERE WAS AN INVISIBLE SUBSTANCE IN THE AMBER WHICH HE CALLED AN ''ELECTRICAL SPIRIT''.WHEN THE ROD WAS RUBBED,THIS ELECTRICAL SPIRIT WAS DISTURBED AND STRETCHED OUT INTO THE AREA AROUND THE ROD.WHEN THE ELECTICAL SPIRIT CONTRACTED AGAIN,IT PULLED WITH IT ANY SMALL OBJECTS THAT HAPPENED TO BE IN ITS PATH.PLEASE ANSWER: A&B

Answer 1

Electrical forces can travel thru a conductor. This conductor is called trasmission line and the power transmitted depend on the velocity of the force. It can travel a very long distance =example from canada to florida.
Electricity is Electron power transmisson by Electron to Electron collison., very similar as sound moves.There has to be a medium to make the force travel.
In the case of air electricity can travel thru air. It does that when the air is Ionized.
Newton Electrical spirit is what we call the electron today. It could have becalled tesla as well or any other name.

Answer 2

When a rod is ruubed it gets electrically charged ( either positvely or negitively ). When this charged rod is brought near another object (no contact) it induces opposite charge in the object, due to which they both attract each other

The induction is like this.......When you bring the object near the rod, the rod attracts opposite charges to the near end and repells like charge to the far end, thus making the object charged.

This induction will last till the rod is present and will depend upon the material and the force of attration will depend upon the amount of charge present on the rod as well as the object

hope you understood

Answer 3

It is now accounted for by the realization that associated with a charge is a "field" that extends throughout space. The field results in a force on any charged particle within the field. So we no longer consider that one charge is acting on another; the charge creates a field that acts on the other. At one time, the field was considered just a mathematical convenience, and wasn't "real". However, Maxwell's equations showed that fields have an independent existence since time changing magnetic fields create electric fields without any charges.