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  2. Coulomb's law - Wikipedia

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    Coulomb's inverse-square law, or simply Coulomb's law, is an experimental law [1] of physics that calculates the amount of force between two electrically charged particles at rest. This electric force is conventionally called the electrostatic force or Coulomb force . [ 2 ]

  3. Coulomb wave function - Wikipedia

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    The Coulomb wave equation for a single charged particle of mass is the Schrödinger equation with Coulomb potential [1] (+) = (),where = is the product of the charges of the particle and of the field source (in units of the elementary charge, = for the hydrogen atom), is the fine-structure constant, and / is the energy of the particle.

  4. Coulomb - Wikipedia

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    The coulomb (symbol: C) is the unit of electric charge in the International System of Units (SI). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is defined to be equal to the electric charge delivered by a 1 ampere current in 1 second .

  5. Electric potential energy - Wikipedia

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    where r is the distance between the point charges q and Q, and q and Q are the charges (not the absolute values of the charges—i.e., an electron would have a negative value of charge when placed in the formula). The following outline of proof states the derivation from the definition of electric potential energy and Coulomb's law to this formula.

  6. Coulomb gas - Wikipedia

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    In statistical physics, a Coulomb gas is a many-body system of charged particles interacting under the electrostatic force. It is named after Charles-Augustin de Coulomb , as the force by which the particles interact is also known as the Coulomb force.

  7. Mathematical descriptions of the electromagnetic field

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    Several features about Maxwell's equations in the Coulomb gauge are as follows. Firstly, solving for the electric potential is very easy, as the equation is a version of Poisson's equation. Secondly, solving for the magnetic vector potential is particularly difficult. This is the big disadvantage of this gauge.

  8. Coulomb barrier - Wikipedia

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    The Coulomb barrier is a type of potential energy barrier, and is central to nuclear fusion. It results from the interplay of two fundamental interactions: the strong interaction at close-range within ≈ 1 fm, and the electromagnetic interaction at far-range beyond the Coulomb barrier. The microscopic range of the strong interaction, on the ...

  9. Electric charge - Wikipedia

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    The SI unit of quantity of electric charge is the coulomb (symbol: C). The coulomb is defined as the quantity of charge that passes through the cross section of an electrical conductor carrying one ampere for one second. [6] This unit was proposed in 1946 and ratified in 1948. [6] The lowercase symbol q is often used to denote a quantity of ...