BRAINCAKECoulombs Law
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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Key terms in this lesson
- permittivity of free space
- A constant that measures how easily a vacuum permits an electric field, used in Coulomb's law and electric field equations.
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