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Charles Augustin De Coulomb And The Theory Of Electromagnetism

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Charles Coulomb

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb was a French physicist. He was born on June 14, 1736 in France in the town of Angouleme. He was born and raised in a small home near France de Revone for 7 years until he started going to school. His parents were Henry Coulomb and Catherine Bajet. His father was a lawyer and his mother came from well-known and well-established aristocratic families in France. Throughout his life, he studied the fields of philosophy, literature, language, botany, chemistry, astronomy, and mathematics. The thing that he is most known for is developing Coulomb’s law, which described the electrostatic forces of attraction and repulsion. His law would serve to be very essential to the development of the theory of electromagnetism. The impact that his work had would go on to leave a legacy behind in the field of electromagnetism, geotechnical engineering, and friction for centuries to come. Unfortunately, he would later on in life fall ill with a serious, life-threatening fever and would die on August 23, 1806 at 70 years old. (1)
Though he studied many fields throughout his career, the fields that he were known best for were the fields of electromagnetism, electricity, and friction. Coulomb was best known for developing Coulomb’s law in 1784, which described how charges will either attract or repel each other. Coulomb’s law states that the magnitude of the electrostatic force of interaction between two point charges is directly proportional to the

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