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unusual facts about Coulomb's constant


Vacuum permittivity

where Q is a quantity that represents the amount of electricity present at each of the two points, and ke is Coulomb's constant.


Bell's spaceship paradox

The thread, on the other hand, being a physical object held together by electrostatic forces, maintains the same rest length.

Bragg's law

Thus, it has been known for many years that, due to repulsive Coulombic interactions, electrically charged macromolecules in an aqueous environment can exhibit long-range crystal-like correlations with interparticle separation distances often being considerably greater than the individual particle diameter.

Cahen

Cahen's constant, an infinite series of unit fractions, with alternating signs, derived from Sylvester's sequence

Carbon nanotube nanomotor

Coulomb's law states that the electrostatic force between two objects is inversely proportional to the square of their distance.

Catalan's constant

Simon Plouffe gives an infinite collection of identities between the trigamma function, π2 and Catalan's constant; these are expressible as paths on a graph.

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

He discovered an inverse relationship of the force between electric charges and the square of its distance, later named after him as Coulomb's law.

He was best known for developing Coulomb's law, the definition of the electrostatic force of attraction and repulsion.

Coulomb barrier

The Coulomb barrier, named after Coulomb's law, which is named after physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736–1806), is the energy barrier due to electrostatic interaction that two nuclei need to overcome so they can get close enough to undergo a nuclear reaction.

Divergence theorem

Two examples are Gauss' law (in electrostatics), which follows from the inverse-square Coulomb's law, and Gauss' law for gravity, which follows from the inverse-square Newton's law of universal gravitation.

Effective nuclear charge

In this case, the effective nuclear charge can be calculated from Coulomb's law.

Electric potential energy

Using Coulomb's law, it is known that the electrostatic force F and the electric field E created by a discrete point charge Q are radially directed from Q.

Electric-field screening

In a fluid composed of electrically charged constituent particles, each pair of particles interact through the Coulomb force,

Entropic force

In the paper, three example systems are shown to exhibit such a force electrostatic system of molten salt, surface tension and rubber elasticity.

Excimer

Evidence for the bonded exciplex intermediate has been given in studies of steric and Coulombic effects on the quenching rate constants and from extensive Discrete Fourier Transform computations that show a curve crossing between the ground state and the low-energy bonded exciplex state.

Exciton

An exciton is a bound state of an electron and an electron hole which are attracted to each other by the electrostatic Coulomb force.

Faddeev equations

The Coulomb interaction between two protons is a special problem, in that its expansion in separable potentials does not converge, but this is handled by matching the Faddeev solutions to long range coulomb solutions, instead of to plane waves.

Field equation

Incidentally, this similarity arises from the similarity between Newton's law of gravitation and Coulomb's law.

Field line

This means that their density is proportional to 1/r^2, the correct result consistent with Coulomb's law for this case.

Force-directed graph drawing

Typically, spring-like attractive forces based on Hooke's law are used to attract pairs of endpoints of the graph's edges towards each other, while simultaneously repulsive forces like those of electrically charged particles based on Coulomb's law are used to separate all pairs of nodes.

Functional derivative

For the electron-nucleus potential, Thomas and Fermi employed the Coulomb potential energy functional

For the classical part of the electron-electron interaction, Thomas and Fermi employed the Coulomb potential energy functional

Gaussian surface

This non-trivial result shows that any spherical distribution of charge acts as a point charge when observed from the outside of the charge distribution; this is in fact a verification of Coulomb's law.

Hydrogen atom

The solution of the Schrödinger equation (wave equations) for the hydrogen atom uses the fact that the Coulomb potential produced by the nucleus is isotropic (it is radially symmetric in space and only depends on the distance to the nucleus).

Interference lithography

A fundamental concern for using low-energy electrons (<<100 eV) with this technique is their natural tendency to repel one another due to Coulomb forces as well as Fermi-Dirac statistics, though electron anti-bunching has been verified only in a single case.

Inverse-square law

The force of attraction or repulsion between two electrically charged particles, in addition to being directly proportional to the product of the electric charges, is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them; this is known as Coulomb's law.

Jefimenko's equations

These equations are the time-dependent generalization of Coulomb's law and the Biot-Savart law to electrodynamics, which were originally true only for electrostatic and magnetostatic fields, and steady currents.

Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector

The hydrogen atom is a Kepler problem, since it comprises two charged particles interacting by Coulomb's law of electrostatics, another inverse square central force.

Lepton

It determines the strength of the electric field generated by the particle (see Coulomb's law) and how strongly the particle reacts to an external electric or magnetic field (see Lorentz force).

Maskless lithography

However, a fundamental consideration here is to what degree electrons from neighboring beams can disturb one another (from Coulomb repulsion).

Mott transition

For an electron to move away from a site requires a certain amount of energy, as the electron is normally pulled back toward the (now positively charged) site by Coulomb forces.

Nitrogen laser

After some time the electric charge in the avalanche becomes so large that following Coulomb's law it generates an electric field as large as the external electric field.

Nonelectrostatic electric fields

The striking difference between the two kinds of fields is that we cannot associate electric potential with points in such an electric field and that the work done by the electric force in such a field is not zero over a closed loop.

P-process

Such proton captures on stable nuclides (or nearly stable), however, are not very efficient in producing p-nuclei, especially the heavier ones, because the electric charge increases with each added proton, leading to an increased repulsion of the next proton to be added, according to Coulomb's law.

Plasma modeling

A kinetic description is achieved by solving the Boltzmann equation or, when the correct description of long-range Coulomb interaction is necessary, by the Vlasov equation which contains self-consistent collective electromagnetic field, or by the Fokker-Planck equation, in which approximations have been used to derive manageable collision terms.

Positronium

We also note that a two-body Dirac equation composed of a Dirac operator for each of the two point particles interacting via the Coulomb interaction can be exactly separated in the (relativistic) center of momentum frame and the resulting ground state eigenvalue has been obtained very accurately using the Finite element methods of J. Shertzer.

QIT

Q = It, the formula describing charge in terms of current and time

Quark–gluon plasma

A plasma is matter in which charges are screened due to the presence of other mobile charges; for example: Coulomb's Law is suppressed by the screening to yield a distance-dependent charge.

Quasiparticle

Motion in a solid is extremely complicated: Each electron and proton gets pushed and pulled (by Coulomb's law) by all the other electrons and protons in the solid (which may themselves be in motion).

Rudolf Podgornik

His field of research is the physics of soft matter, the physics of coulomb fluids and macromolecular interactions, the Lifshitz theory of dispersion interaction, the physics of membranes, polymers and polyelectrolytes and especially the physics of DNA and viruses.

Sand filter

In addition, particulate solids can be prevented from being captured by surface charge repulsion if the surface charge of the sand is of the same sign (positive or negative) as that of the particulate solid.

Screening effect

In solids, especially in metals and semiconductors, the electrostatic screening or screening effect reduces the electrostatic field and Coulomb potential of an ion inside the solid.

Semiconductor luminescence equations

This description established the first step toward semiconductor quantum optics because the SLEs simultaneously includes the quantized light–matter interaction and the Coulomb-interaction coupling among electronic excitations within a semiconductor.

Tandem mass spectrometry

If an electron is added to a multiply charged positive ion, the Coulomb energy is liberated.

Tight binding

This interaction Hamiltonian includes direct Coulomb interaction energy and exchange interaction energy between electrons.

Torsion spring

Determining the force for different charges and different separations between the balls, he showed that it followed an inverse-square proportionality law, now known as Coulomb's law.

Variable speed of light

Paul Davies and collaborators have suggested that it is in principle possible to disentangle which of the dimensionful constants (the elementary charge, Planck's constant, and the speed of light) of which the fine-structure constant is composed is responsible for the variation.

Vlasov equation

The Vlasov equation is a differential equation describing time evolution of the distribution function of plasma consisting of charged particles with long-range (for example, Coulomb) interaction.

Water model

The electrostatic interaction is modeled using Coulomb's law and the dispersion and repulsion forces using the Lennard-Jones potential.

World line

For instance, the traditional electro-static force described by Coulomb's law may be pictured in a simultaneous hyperplane, but relativistic relations of charge and force involve retarded potentials.


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