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Coulomb's law

Coulomb's law proper noun: the fundamental law of electrostatics - the force between two point charges is proportional to the product of their charges, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.

Proper noun

Coulomb's law

  1. the fundamental law of electrostatics - the force between two point charges is proportional to the product of their charges, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them

Questions about Coulomb's law

What does Coulomb's law mean?
Coulomb's law means the fundamental law of electrostatics - the force between two point charges is proportional to the product of their charges, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
What part of speech is Coulomb's law?
Coulomb's law is a proper noun.

Words near Coulomb's law in the dictionary

  1. Coulomb force
  2. Coulomb gauge
  3. Coulomb gauges
  4. Coulomb repulsion
  5. Coulomb's constant
  6. Coulomb's law
  7. Coulombe
  8. Coulombes
  9. Coulombian
  10. coulombic
  11. coulombically

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