BRAINCAKECoulomb's Law
Coulomb's law states that the force between two point charges is proportional to the product of their charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
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Key terms in this lesson
- Permittivity of free space
- A physical constant, 8.85 times ten to the minus 12 farads per metre, that describes the ability of a vacuum to support an electric field.
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