COULOMB

kooˈlŏm, abbr. coul or C, unit of electric charge. The absolute coulomb, the current U.S. legal standard, is the amount of charge transferred in 1 second by a current of 1 ampere; i.e., it is 1 ampere-second.

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Economic Theories of Peace and War
Book by Fanny Coulomb; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Peace--Economic Aspects, War, Cost Of, War--Economic Aspects
...conceptualisation de la guerre economique , in Daguzan, J.F. and Lorot, P. (eds) Guerre et economie, Ellipses, Paris, 73-87. Coulomb, F. and Fontanel, J. (2000) Disarmament in the next millennium, Defence and Peace Economics , 11 (1), 105-125...
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Groundbreaking Scientific Experiments, Inventions, and Discoveries of the 18th Century
Book by Jonathan Shectman; Greenwood Press, 2003
Subjects: Science--History--18th Century, Technology--History--18th Century
...this scientist is appropriately known as Coulomb's law (also called the rule of electrical forces). Coulomb's law grew out of his work with the...balance and from the inverse square law. Coulomb's law also states that any magnitude...
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International Dictionary of Physics and Electronics
Book by Walter C. Michels; Van Nostrand, 1956
...elementary discussion of viscosity. COULOMB. A unit of electrical charge, abbreviation coul or Cb. 1. The absolute coulomb is defined as the amount of electrical...across the surface. The absolute coulomb has been the legal standard of quantity...
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International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 1990 - Vol. 2
Book by International Joint Conference on Nueral Networks; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1990
APPLICATION OF COULOMB ENERGY NETWORK TO KOREAN CHARACTER RECOGNITION...Daejeon, Chungnam, KOREA ABSTRACT Coulomb energy network originally developed by...result of implementing multi-layer coulomb energy network for the korean character...
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How the Laws of Physics Lie
Book by Nancy Cartwright; Clarendon Press, 1999
Subjects: Physics--Philosophy
...equal to the difference between the exact Coulomb interaction and the average potential...five levels are due to a combination of a Coulomb potential, and a potential created by...state the laws that it uses? For the Coulomb effect we might try Whenever a Coulomb...
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Perceived Motivational Climate and Observed Aggression as a Function of Competitive Level in Youth Male French Handball
Journal article by Olivier Rascle, Genevieve Coulomb-Cabagno, Aymeric Delsarte; Journal of Sport Behavior, Vol. 28, 2005
Subjects: Aggressiveness (Psychology), Athletes--Physiological aspects, Competition (Psychology), Handball, Motivation (Psychology)
...Handball. by Olivier Rascle , Genevieve Coulomb-Cabagno , Aymeric Delsarte It is now...Templin, 1991; Dunn Dunn, 1999; Rascle, Coulomb, Pfister, 1998: Roberts Ommundsen...players. Using an observation method, Coulomb and Pfister (1998) revealed that national...
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Aggression in Youth Handball: Relationships between Goal Orientations and Induced Motivational Context
Journal article by Olivier Rascle, Genevieve Coulomb; Social Behavior and Personality, Vol. 31, 2003
...Context by Olivier Rascle , Genevieve Coulomb Recent studies have found that dispositional...Duda, Olson, Templin, 1991; Rascle, Coulomb, Pfister, 1998; Treasure, Carpenter...others if their coach requested. Rascle, Coulomb and Pfister (2000) suggested that one...
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Aggressive Behaviors in Soccer as a Function of Competition Level and Time; a Field Study
Journal article by Genevieve Coulomb, Richard Pfister; Journal of Sport Behavior, Vol. 21, 1998
Subjects: Aggressiveness (Psychology)--Research, Soccer--Psychological aspects, Sports violence--Research, Violence in sports--Research
Aggressive Behaviors in Soccer as a Function of Competition Level and Time; a Field Study. by Genevieve Coulomb , Richard Pfister Since the seventies, many studies have been conducted on the phenomenon of sports violence. The results of...
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Styles of Experimentation and the Attempts to Establish the Lightning Rod in Pre-revolutionary Paris
Journal article by Peter Heering; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 99, 2009
Subjects: Lightning
...the starting point of Coulombs electrostatic research...could also explain why Coulomb turned so quickly to...electricity.46 When Coulombs six memoirs on electricity...whether this analysis of Coulombs research warrants closer...particularly because neither Coulomb nor any of his contemporaries...
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Gender Effects in the Assessment of Technical Fouls among High School Basketball Officials and Collegiate Proxies
Journal article by Richard G. Graf, Brandon A. Yabko, Niels P. Christensen; Journal of Sport Behavior, Vol. 32, 2009
Subjects: Basketball rules--Management, Basketball--Management, Basketball--Rules, High school sports--Laws, regulations and rules, Sports officiating--Demographic aspects
...relate to officiating behavior. Souchon, Coulomb-Cabagno, Traclet, and Rascle (2004) as well as Coulomb-Cabagno, Rascle, and Souchon (2005...coach versus player). Given the findings Coulomb-Cabagno (2005) that female athletes...
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Going Electric: State Policies Can Have an Enormous Effect on the Popularity of Plug-In Vehicles
Magazine article by Glen Andersen; State Legislatures, Vol. 37, May 2011
Subjects: Automobiles, Electric--Prices and rates, Electric cars--Prices and rates, United States. Department of Energy
...infrastructure--such as public charging stations--and offering workforce training to support electric vehicle systems. Coulomb Technologies, a corporation that focuses on charging stations, used $37 million of the money to develop ChargePoint America...
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Scientific and Technical Information: This Milennium and the Next
Magazine article by Nancy Lambert; Searcher, Vol. 8, January 2000
Subjects: Computers, Forecasts, History, Information industry, Interactive media, Internet, Patents, Science, Technical communication, Technological change, United States
...18th century, with Lavoisiers discovery of oxygen and his refutation of the old phlogiston theory. In the late 18th century Coulomb began to measure electromagnetic forces. In the 19th century, biology developed past natural philosophy. Darwin came up...
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Maori and Mission Sisters in New Zealand since 1865: Changing Approaches
Magazine article by Susan Smith; International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 31, April 2007
Subjects: Catholic churches, Changes, Children & youth, Clergy, Education, Ideology, Immigration, Missionaries, Native peoples, Religious missions
...fact, there was no evidence that Irish Catholic settlers were concerned about French sisters teaching their children. LAbbe Coulomb, the first biographer of Euphrasie, reports that "before the end of the month presumably March 1865 over fifty children...
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Physics Is Phun!
Magazine article by Linda C. Joseph; MultiMedia & Internet@Schools, Vol. 14, November 2007
Subjects: Amusement parks, Demonstrations & protests, Environmental science, Experiments, Field trips, Learning centers, Physics, Professional development, Roller hockey, Students, Teachers, Temperature effects
...about the basic concepts of matter, static charges, how to construct a circuit, temperature effect on atomic movement, Coulomb force versus velocity, and fusion versus temperature. This project originated in 1996 at the Princeton University Plasma...
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[A Midsummer Night's Dream. University of Toronto's Opera Division. Macmillan Theatre. Toronto
Magazine article by Paul Baker; Vol. 41, Spring 2000
Subjects: Opera reviews
...Szabo) impressed as Lucretia, conveying dignified pathos rather than hysteria. As the wronged husband Collatinus, Alain Coulomb was musically and dramatically convincing, particularly in Leblancs poignant staging of the finale. At the Nov. 26 performance...
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Mixing It Up A Little Bit of Imagination, a Dash of Customer Conversation and a Pinch of Intuition ... Viola! A New Drink Is Born
Newspaper article by Jessica Young; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), June 2, 2006
...corny, be novel, be rude," Coulomb said. "The Chicken Flu...during warm-weather months." Coulomb has noticed a movement away...Looking at current sales, Coulomb is also betting that a lot...publisher Ray Foley confirmed Coulombs predictions. Raspberry vodka...
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THE MASTER of Disaster
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), December 9, 2005
...friends with the people at Coulomb. We were looking to do some...remain friends. Which isnt how Coulomb sees it. The money is eight...it back, says David Knell, Coulombs managing director. There is...following his fallout with Coulomb. At our last meeting, he...
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Bay Area Revs Up Electric-Car Future
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), August 2, 2009
...economy by providing jobs in an emerging manufacturing sector. Coulomb Technologies, which has installed charging stations in front...electric vehicles (PHEVs) as well as all-electric vehicles. Coulomb CEO Richard Lowenthal said the situation in the United States...
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Benet Students Go All out for Variety Show
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 11, 2001
...have made good choices." Senior Megan Coulomb of Naperville will be performing for the first time in the show. Coulombs skit is one of the largest acts that...bye, Earl by the Dixie Chicks." Coulomb said. "So we are mixing acting as...
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Palatine Leader Recognized Nationally by Senior Group
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 30, 2010
...Stevenson, and New Trier high schools. Also representing Hersey in the competition were senior Angelica Tillander and junior Ben Coulomb. Both won second alternate medals in their respective House chambers and would qualify for Kansas City if the first two qualifiers...
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encyclopedia articles on: Coulomb  - 12 results

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Coulomb
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
COULOMB koo lom for C. A. de Coulomb , abbr. coul or C, unit of electric charge . The absolute coulomb, the current U.S. legal standard, is the amount of charge transferred in 1 second by a current of 1 ampere ; i.e., it is 1 ampere...
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Coulomb, Charles Augustin De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
COULOMB, CHARLES AUGUSTIN DE koo lom, koolom , Fr. sharl...determining torsional elasticity and in establishing Coulombs law . The unit of quantity of electric charge, the coulomb , is named in his honor. See study by C. S. Gilmor...
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Coulomb's Law
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
COULOMBS LAW koo lomz, in physics...repulsive (see charge ). Coulombs law applies exactly only when...principles of quantum physics, Coulombs law helps describe the forces...deduced in 1785 by C. A. de Coulomb from experimental measures...
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Electricity
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...ampere is the unit of current, the coulomb is the unit of charge, the volt...unlike charges are attracted (see Coulombs law ). The electric force between...the materials), and Charles A. Coulomb, by expressing mathematically the...
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Magnetism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...still considered open by physicists; experiments to date have failed to detect one.) From his study of magnetism, C. A. Coulomb in the 18th cent. found that the magnetic forces between two poles followed an inverse-square law of the same form as that...
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