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Charles Augustin de Coulomb
Charles Augustin de Coulomb (1736 - 1806) developed a theory of attraction and repulsion between bodies of the same and opposite electrical charge. He demonstrated an inverse square law for such ...
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Electric Current
Electric current is the rate of charge flow past a given point in an electric circuit, measured in coulombs/second which is named amperes. In most DC electric circuits, it can be assumed that the ...
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Coulomb force vs velocity
Shows the animated effect of increasing the kinetic energy and/or the charge of two particles as they approach each other.
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Physicists
A brief description of some of the most prominent physicists in history. The list of 10 names includes Ampere, Coulomb, Curie, Einstein, Joule, Newton and Watt.
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Coulomb Barrier
In order to accomplish nuclear fusion, the particles involved must first overcome the electric repulsion to get close enough for the attractive nuclear strong force to take over to fuse the particles.
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Wilhelm Eduard Weber
Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804 - 1891) worked closely with Carl Friedrich Gauss and developed sensitive magnetometers and other magnetic instruments. The magnetic unit, termed a weber, formerly the ...
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Voltage
Voltage is electric potential energy per unit charge, measured in joules per coulomb ( = volts). It is often referred to as "electric potential", which then must be distinguished from electric ...
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