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  2. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb - Wikipedia

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    Charles-Augustin de Coulomb was born in Angoulême, Angoumois county, France, to Henry Coulomb, an inspector of the royal demesne originally from Montpellier, and Catherine Bajet. He was baptised at the parish church of St. André. The family moved to Paris early in his childhood, and he studied at Collège Mazarin. His studies included ...

  3. History of classical field theory - Wikipedia

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    Charles-Augustin de Coulomb showed in 1785 that the repulsive force between two electrically charged spheres obeys the same (up to a sign) force law as Newton's law of universal gravitation. In 1823, Siméon Denis Poisson introduced the Poisson's equation , explaining the electric forces in terms of an electric potential . [ 13 ]

  4. Action at a distance - Wikipedia

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    By 1785 Charles-Augustin de Coulomb showed that two electric charges at rest experience a force inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them, a result now called Coulomb's law. The striking similarity to gravity strengthened the case for action at a distance, at least as a mathematical model. [12]

  5. History of electromagnetic theory - Wikipedia

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    History of electromagnetic spectrum, History of electrical engineering, History of Maxwell's equations, History of radio, History of optics, History of physics General Coulomb's law, Biot–Savart law, Gauss's law, Ampère's circuital law, Gauss's law for magnetism, Faraday's law of induction, Ponderomotive force, Telluric currents, Terrestrial ...

  6. Coulomb's law - Wikipedia

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    Although the law was known earlier, it was first published in 1785 by French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb. Coulomb's law was essential to the development of the theory of electromagnetism and maybe even its starting point, [ 1 ] as it allowed meaningful discussions of the amount of electric charge in a particle.

  7. History of Maxwell's equations - Wikipedia

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    In the 1780s, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb established his law of electrostatics. In 1825, André-Marie Ampère published his force law. In 1831, Michael Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction through his experiments, and proposed lines of forces to describe it.

  8. Mohr–Coulomb theory - Wikipedia

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    The Mohr–Coulomb theory is named in honour of Charles-Augustin de Coulomb and Christian Otto Mohr.Coulomb's contribution was a 1776 essay entitled "Essai sur une application des règles des maximis et minimis à quelques problèmes de statique relatifs à l'architecture" .

  9. List of scientists whose names are used in physical constants

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    Charles-Augustin de Coulomb: 1736–1806 French: Coulomb constant: Amedeo Avogadro: 1776–1856 Italian: Avogadro constant: Michael Faraday: 1791–1867 British Faraday constant: Johann Josef Loschmidt: 1821–1895 Austrian: Loschmidt constant: Johann Jakob Balmer: 1825–1898 Swiss: Balmer's constant: Josef Stefan: 1835–1893 Slovene/Austrian ...