The document discusses static electricity and Coulomb's law. It explains that Benjamin Franklin established the convention of calling the two types of electric charges "positive" and "negative". It also explains that Coulomb's law states that the electric force between two point charges depends on the magnitudes of the charges and the distance between them, and is proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance. The document provides an example calculation of the electric force between two charges using Coulomb's law.