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Coulombs Law

AQA A-level PhysicsElectric FieldsLesson 14 of 17

Coulombs 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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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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