coulomb's law

Coulomb's law

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noun coulomb's law 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 3
noun coulomb's law the statement that the electrostatic force between two charged bodies acts along the line between them, is directly proportional to the product of their magnitudes, and is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them: similarly charged bodies repel one another, while oppositely charged bodies attract one another 3
noun coulomb's law the principle that the force between two point charges acts in the direction of the line between them and is directly proportional to the product of their electric charges divided by the square of the distance between them. 1

before 1850

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First recorded in 1850-55; after Coulomb

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