Coulomb
Electrostatic law discoverer
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb was an 18th-century French physicist who formulated the law of electrostatic force between charged particles.
Coulomb's law describes how the force between two charges varies with distance and magnitude.
The unit of electric charge, the coulomb, bears his name. (Lowercase coulomb is the unit of charge.)
law
Of stationary electrical charges
- forceStrength or compulsion
- chargeCost or accusation
- permittivityElectric polarization capacity
- electric fieldRegion affecting nearby charges
potential · dielectric · repulsion · attraction · distance
physicist
Of or from Paris's nation
- physicistScientist of matter and energy
- scientistOne who studies nature
- 18th-centuryThe seventeen hundreds
- electrostaticsStudy of stationary charges
electrostatic
Of stationary electrical charges
- forceStrength or compulsion
- chargeCost or accusation
- permittivityElectric polarization capacity
electric field · potential · dielectric · repulsion · attraction · distance
French
Of or from Paris's nation
- physicistScientist of matter and energy
- scientistOne who studies nature
- 18th-centuryThe seventeen hundreds