Coulomb's law

Summary

Coulomb's law is a physical law^[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of physical_law entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,474 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• Coulomb's law is credited with the discovery of Charles-Augustin de Coulomb^[3].
• Coulomb's law's image is recorded as CoulombsLaw.svg^[4].
• Coulomb's law's instance of is recorded as physical law^[5].
• Charles-Augustin de Coulomb is named after Coulomb's law^[6].
• Coulomb's law's GND ID is recorded as 7595673-1^[7].
• Coulomb's law's Commons category is recorded as Coulomb's law^[8].
• Coulomb's law's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1875-00-00T00:00:00Z^[9].
• Coulomb's law's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/018fbt^[10].
• Coulomb's law's PSH ID is recorded as 3356^[11].
• Coulomb's law's facet of is recorded as electrostatics^[12].
• Coulomb's law's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0020415^[13].
• Coulomb's law's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia^[14].
• Coulomb's law's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)^[15].
• Coulomb's law's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/Coulombs-law^[16].
• Coulomb's law's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/Coulomb-force^[17].
• Coulomb's law's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://physics.stackexchange.com/tags/coulombs-law^[18].
• Coulomb's law's different from is recorded as Coulomb friction^[19].
• Coulomb's law's defining formula is recorded as F = \frac{1}{4 \pi \varepsilon_0} \frac{q_1 q_2}{r^2}^[20].
• Coulomb's law's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 2120680^[21].
• Coulomb's law's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as loi-de-coulomb^[22].
• Coulomb's law's Quora topic ID is recorded as Coulombs-Law^[23].
• Coulomb's law's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as coulombs-law^[24].
• Coulomb's law's Elhuyar ZTH ID is recorded as 132900^[25].
• Coulomb's law's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["PhysicalEffect", "CoulombsLaw"]^[26].
• Coulomb's law's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[27].

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Works and Contributions

Coulomb's law is credited with the discovery of Charles-Augustin de Coulomb^[3]. Things named for it include Coulomb blockade^[28], a physical phenomenon^[29] and Coulomb operator^[30], an operator in physics^[31].

Why It Matters

Coulomb's law ranks in the top 4% of physical_law entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,474 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[32] It is known by 91 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[33]

Entities named for it include Coulomb blockade^[28], a physical phenomenon^[29] and Coulomb operator^[30], an operator in physics^[31].