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Electromagnetism: testing Coulomb’s law

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This free course explores Coulomb’s law, the physical law that governs the force between electric charges, and shows how it can be verified experimentally. As a prerequisite you will need some mathematical knowledge of vectors.This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course SM381 Electromagnetism.

Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • 1 Electric force – Coulomb’s law
  • 1.1 Coulomb’s law in vector form
  • 2 Calculating the electric force between three or more charges
  • 3 Testing Coulomb’s law and using vector components
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Acknowledgements

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