Coulomb Definition

Coulomb Sentence Examples

• The practical unit of quantity of electricity, the coulomb, is named after him.

• Coulomb is distinguished in the history alike of mechanics and of electricity and magnetism.

• Coulomb's researches provided data for the development of a mathematical theory of magnetism, which was indeed initiated by himself, but was first treated in a complete form by Poisson in a series of memoirs published in 1821 and later.

• Coulomb proved the proportionality of electric surface force to density, but the above numerical relation E= 42ra was first established by Poisson.

• The French mathematicians, Coulomb, Biot, Poisson and Ampere, had been content to accept the fact that electric charges or currents in conductors could exert forces on other charges or conductors at a distance without inquiring into the means by which this action at a distance was produced.