This document provides an introduction to electrostatics and discusses electric charges, atomic structure, early theories of electricity from Thales and Franklin, conduction and insulation, Coulomb's law for electrostatic force between two charges, and examples of calculating electrostatic force and potential. It defines key terms like electrostatics, charge, proton, electron, conductor, insulator, and Coulomb's law. Diagrams and examples throughout illustrate electrostatic concepts and their applications.