a fundamental principle of electrostatics; the force of attraction or repulsion between two charged particles is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the distance between them; principle also holds for magnetic poles
coulomb kanunu
Hyphenation
co·u·lomb ka·nu·nu
Etymology
[ 'kü-"läm, -"lOm ] (noun.) 1881. Charles A. de Coulomb.