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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The basic unit of electric charge, equal to the quantity of charge transferred in one second by a steady current of one ampere, and equivalent to 6.2415 × 1018 elementary charges, where one elementary charge is the charge of a proton or the negative of the charge of an electron. A coulomb's value in the International System differs very slightly from that in the meter-kilogram-second-ampere system of units.
- adjective Of or relating to the Coulomb force.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The unit of quantity in measurements of current electricity; the quantity furnished by a current of one ampere in one second. See
ampere .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physics) The standard unit of quantity in electrical measurements. It is the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by the current produced by an electro-motive force of one volt acting in a circuit having a resistance of one ohm, or the quantity transferred by one ampère in one second. Formerly called
weber .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun In the
International System of Units , thederived unit ofelectric charge ; the amount of electric charge carried by acurrent of 1ampere flowing for 1second . Symbol:C - noun Jewelry:
pendant . From the homophone for Coulomb in Russian, кулон.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun French physicist famous for his discoveries in the field of electricity and magnetism; formulated Coulomb's Law (1736-1806)
- noun a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second
Etymologies
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Examples
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Instead of focusing on real experimental facts (generation of excess heat) discussion quickly shifted to theoretical considerations, such as coulomb barrier, expectations based on wrong models, etc.
Scientific Method 2009
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The product of A · s is called coulomb in honour of the French physicist Charles Auguste de Coulomb (1736 -
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Is there a corresponding issue with coulomb forces acting at a distance?
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In elementary Electro-Dynamics, we modeled coulomb forces (say from a point charge) as acting instantaneously.
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The joule (symbol J, also called Newton meter, or coulomb volt) is the SI unit of energy and work.
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"Gravity doesn't act that fast, on the other hand, electric force, the coulomb attraction, is 39 orders of magnitude stronger than gravity and explains why "changes over just a few months" can be observed & measured."
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The roots of maxwell in coulomb and ampere are historical, not logical.
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Quantum Mechanics, But Were Afraid to Ask Sean 2008
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Futher reading (click here if you dare) uncovers other obsessions with coulomb forces in nuclear fusion and a notion that space-time curvature sets humans apart as a species.
The Queen is my dealer Julianne 2007
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There is a divergent self-energy for the electron due to the energy of its coulomb field that diverges much faster (power law) in the classical case than in the quantum case (logarithmically), considered as a function of the cutoff on the “size” of the electon.
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