Cou·lomb's law

(ko͞o′lŏmz′, -lōmz′)

The fundamental law of electrostatics stating that the force between two charged particles is directly proportional to the product of their charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.

[After Charles Augustin de Coulomb.]

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Coulomb's law

(General Physics) the principle that the force of attraction or repulsion between two point electric charges is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. A similar law holds for particles with mass

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Coulomb's law

A law stating that the strength of the electric field between two charged objects depends on the strength of the charges of the objects and on the distance between them. The greater the charges are, the stronger the field is, and the greater the distance between the charged objects is, the weaker the field is.

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Coulomb's Law - a fundamental principle of electrostatics; the force of attraction or repulsion between two charged particles is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the distance between them; principle also holds for magnetic poles

law of nature, law - a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature; "the laws of thermodynamics"

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His topics include Coulomb's Law, direct current circuits, the magnetic force and field, time-dependent circuits, and the theory of special relativity.

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At these regimes, due to the finiteness of the velocity of propagation of the electromagnetic signals, one cannot account on Coulomb's law, since this requires an infinite speed of propagation.

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Science and Technology: ARCHIMEDES' PRINCIPLE/SCREW, BISHOP'S RING, COULOMB'S LAW, EINSTEIN'S PHOTOELECTRIC EQUATION, EVE'S CONSTANT, GAUSE'S PRINCIPLE, GOLDBEATER'S SKIN, GOLDSCHMIDT'S PROCESS, HALLEY'S METHOD, HENRY'S LAW, HEISENBERG'S PRINCIPLE, HUBBLE'S CONSTANT, HUYGHENS' PRINCIPLE, KELVIN'S LAW, KIRCHOFF'S LAW, MAXWELL'S DEMON, NEWTON'S DISC, NEWTON'S LAW OF COOLING/MOTION, OLDHAM'S COUPLING, PASCHEN'S LAW, SCHRODINGER'S CAT/WAVE EQUATION, WALLACE'S LINE, WEBER'S LINE, ZOLLNER'S LINES (optical illusion)

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Thus the friction between the rollers and the sheet has been modeled by using Coulomb's law. And the coefficient of friction 0.1has been assumed.

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5, is to explain how nature works, and to demonstrate how the physical entity "magnetic field" can be revealed using more fundamental physical laws, specifically Coulomb's law and the laws of special relativity [1].

Lorentzian type force on a charge at rest

Experimental tests of Coulomb's law use large, but usually static, masses [18].

Some implications of two forms of the generalized uncertainty principle

For example, the scale factor in the Coulomb's law can be written as the following solitary equation

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