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Coulomb's Law

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Coulomb's law is a fundamental principle of electrostatics that quantifies the amount of force between two stationary, electrically charged particles.

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Proposed YearSourced to the subject's own account
1785 1
Proposed BySourced to the subject's own account
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1
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Additional Source Coulomb's Law (Wikipedia)History section (edge: proposed-by, Coulomb)
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1. Coulomb's Law (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia
  • Lead section (entity-description)
    Coulomb's law is an experimental law of physics that quantifies the amount of force between two stationary, electrically charged particles.
  • Lead section (proposed-year)
    The law was first published in 1785 by French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb.
  • Lead section (proposed-by)
    The law was first published in 1785 by French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb.
  • Proposed By: Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, History section (edge: proposed-by, Coulomb)
    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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