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AP Physics C/Electricity and Magnetism Coulomb's Law
Coulomb's law, is sometimes called the Coulomb law, is an equation describing the electrostatic force between electric charges. It was studied and first published in the 1780s by French physicist Charles Augustin de Coulomb and was essential to the development of the theory of electromagnetism. Nevertheless, the dependence of the electric force with distance (inverse square law) had been proposed previously by Joseph Priestley and the dependence with both distance and charge had been discovered, but not published, by Henry Cavendish, prior to Coulomb's works. The magnitude of the electrostatic force between two point electric charges is directly proportional to the product of the magnitudes of each of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the total distance between the two charges. The scalar form of Coulomb's law will only describe the magnitude of the electrostatic force between two electric charges. If direction is required, then the vector form is required as well.
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Last reply by: Suresh Sundarraj
Tue Oct 29, 2013 6:48 PM
Post by Laron Burrows on October 24, 2013
At 37:35 did you forget to divide by k??
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Post by yannick Haberkorn on October 14, 2013
what if the permitivity of free space = 3 or 12 how do you apply coulombs law ?
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Post by yannick Haberkorn on October 11, 2013
this stuf is hard ... i need this for my electrical engineering class lol . not good man
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Post by yannick Haberkorn on October 9, 2013
i understand that 0,3 is being squared , but why is it multiplied by 10^-1 ?
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Last reply by: Rob Escalera
Thu Sep 26, 2013 1:48 AM
Post by Sonalya Jayasuriya on February 15, 2012
Di Jishi in the problem with the two small spheres what happens to the K after you find the equation for q2
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Last reply by: Bora Basa
Sat Jun 8, 2013 4:12 AM
Post by chris bagwell on August 9, 2011
question: why does this law seem similar to newtons law of gravity?