"Coulomb" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Laplace had invented for the problem of the figure of the planets. And, in 1811, M. Poisson applied Laplace's artifices to the case of two spheres acting upon one another in contact, a case to which many of Coulomb's experiments were referrible; and the agreement of the results of theory and observation, thus extricated from Coulomb's numbers obtained above forty years previously, was very ...
— Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects - Everyman's Library • Herbert Spencer
... Coulomb's torsion balance has been adapted by M. Baille to the measurement of low electromotive forces in a very successful manner, and has been found preferable by him to the delicate electrometers of Sir W. Thomson. It is necessary to guard it from disturbances due to extraneous electric ...
— Scientific American Supplement No. 275 • Various
... electrical quantity is the coulomb. The unit of capacity of an insulated conductor is the farad, and a given insulated conductor is said to have unit capacity, that is, the capacity of one farad, when it will receive a charge of one coulomb of electricity at a potential ...
— Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 - A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. • Kempster Miller |
