Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736-1806) was a French officer, engineer and physicist, best known as the eponymous discoverer of Coulomb's law, the inverse-square law governing the force between electric charges. He established the law using a torsion balance of his own invention, which he built in 1777 to measure very weak electrostatic and magnetic forces from the twist it produced in a suspended fiber.
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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account Death DateSourced to the subject's own account Death YearSourced to the subject's own account FieldSourced to the subject's own accountPhysics (electricity and magnetism, friction, torsion), military engineering 1 Death PlaceSourced to the subject's own account NationalitySourced to the subject's own account Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountCoulomb's law, the inverse-square law of electrostatic force 1 BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own accountAngoulême, Angoumois, France 1 Connections
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14 June 1736 - 23 August 1806) was a French officer, engineer, and physicist.
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Known for Torsion balance Coulomb's law Coulomb friction Coulomb damping Mohr-Coulomb theory
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The torsion balance, also called torsion pendulum, is a scientific apparatus for measuring very weak forces, usually credited to Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, who invented it in 1777, but independently invented by John Michell sometime before 1783.
Coulomb's Law (Wikipedia)
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Finally, in 1785, the French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb published his application of a torsion balance to determine that the magnitude of the electric force between two point charges.
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