Charles augustin coulomb and the fundamental law of electrostatics

Metrologia

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Falconer, Isobel ^a  

^a Lumbo Farmhouse   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ASTRONOMY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COULOMB BLOCKADE; ELECTRIC CHARGE; FRICTION; GRAVITATION; JETS;

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS; NEWTONIAN THEORY;

ELECTROSTATICS;

EID: 7044233639     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/41/5/S01     Document Type: Review

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