Coulomb (disambiguation)
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Coulomb or Coulombs may refer to:
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736–1806), French physicist, also:
- Coulomb, a unit of electric charge
- Coulomb's law, in electrostatics
- Coulomb blockade, an increased resistance of certain electronic devices
- Coulomb barrier, the energy barrier that two nuclei need to overcome to undergo nuclear fusion
- Coulomb collision, a collision between two particles when the force between them is given by Coulomb's law
- Coulomb damping, a type of constant mechanical damping
- Coulomb explosion, a mechanism of laser vaporization
- Coulomb friction, a friction model which is not proportional to velocity and depends only on the direction of movement
- Coulomb operator, a quantum mechanical operator used in quantum chemistry
- Coulomb stress transfer, an interaction criterion important in the study of earthquakes
- Mohr–Coulomb theory, a mathematical model describing the response of certain materials to stresses
- Coulomb (crater), a lunar crater
- Coulomb family, a family of French naval architects, amongst whom:
- François Coulomb the Younger (1691–1751)
- Joseph-Marie-Blaise Coulomb, (1728—1803)
- Jean Coulomb (1904–1999), French mathematician, geophysicist and scientific administrator
- Coulomb Affair, a conflict between Emma and Alexis Coulomb, on one side, and Helena Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society, on the other
Places
- Coulombs, Calvados, a commune in Basse-Normandie, France
- Coulombs, Eure-et-Loir, a commune in central France
- Coulombs-en-Valois, a commune in the Seine-et-Marne département, France
- Saint-Coulomb, a commune in Brittany, France
Other
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