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List Of Things Named After Charles-Augustin De Coulomb
A list of things named for French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736–1806). For additional uses of the term, see coulomb (other) * coulomb (symbol C), the SI unit of electric charge * Coulomb's law ** Coulomb constant * Coulomb barrier * Coulomb blockade * Coulomb collision * Coulomb damping * Coulomb excitation * Coulomb explosion * Coulomb friction * Coulomb gap * Coulomb gauge * Coulomb Hamiltonian * Coulomb logarithm * Coulomb operator * Coulomb phase * Coulomb potential * Coulomb scattering (Rutherford scattering) * Coulomb scattering state * Coulomb stress transfer * Coulomb wave function ** A coulomb wave function is a solution to the coulomb wave equation * Coulomb, a lunar crater ** Coulomb-Sarton Basin, lunar basin named after the craters Coulomb and Sarton * Coulometry * Interatomic Coulombic decay * Mohr–Coulomb theory * Screened Coulomb Potentials Implicit Solvent Model * Statcoulomb (Symbol statC) See also * Coulomb (other) ...
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Charles-Augustin De Coulomb
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (; ; 14 June 1736 – 23 August 1806) was a French officer, engineer, and physicist. He is best known as the eponymous discoverer of what is now called Coulomb's law, the description of the electrostatic force of attraction and repulsion. He also did important work on friction. The SI unit of electric charge, the coulomb, was named in his honor in 1880. Life Charles-Augustin de Coulomb was born in Angoulême, Angoumois county, France, to Henry Coulomb, an inspector of the royal demesne originally from Montpellier, and Catherine Bajet. He was baptised at the parish church of St. André. The family moved to Paris early in his childhood, and he studied at Collège Mazarin. His studies included philosophy, language and literature. He also received a good education in mathematics, astronomy, chemistry and botany. When his father suffered a financial setback, he was forced to leave Paris, and went to Montpellier. Coulomb submitted his first publication ...
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Coulomb Phase
In theoretical physics, it is often important to consider gauge theory that admits many physical phenomena and "phases", connected by phase transitions, in which the vacuum may be found. Global symmetries in a gauge theory may be broken by the Higgs mechanism. In more general theories such as those relevant in string theory, there are often many Higgs fields that transform in different representations of the gauge group. If they transform in the adjoint representation or a similar representation, the original gauge symmetry is typically broken to a product of ''U(1)'' factors. Because ''U(1)'' describes electromagnetism including the Coulomb field, the corresponding phase is called a Coulomb phase. If the Higgs fields that induce the spontaneous symmetry breaking transform in other representations, the Higgs mechanism often breaks the gauge group completely and no ''U(1)'' factors are left. In this case, the corresponding vacuum expectation value In quantum field theory the ...
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Mohr–Coulomb Theory
Mohr–Coulomb theory is a mathematical model (see yield surface) describing the response of brittle materials such as concrete, or rubble piles, to shear stress as well as normal stress. Most of the classical engineering materials follow this rule in at least a portion of their shear failure envelope. Generally the theory applies to materials for which the compressive strength far exceeds the tensile strength. In geotechnical engineering it is used to define shear strength of soils and rocks at different effective stresses. In structural engineering it is used to determine failure load as well as the angle of fracture of a displacement fracture in concrete and similar materials. Coulomb's friction hypothesis is used to determine the combination of shear and normal stress that will cause a fracture of the material. Mohr's circle is used to determine which principal stresses will produce this combination of shear and normal stress, and the angle of the plane in which this ...
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Interatomic Coulombic Decay
Interatomic Coulombic decay (ICD) is a general, fundamental property of atoms and molecules that have neighbors. Interatomic (intermolecular) Coulombic decay is a very efficient interatomic (intermolecular) relaxation process of an electronically excited atom or molecule embedded in an environment. Without the environment the process cannot take place. Until now it has been mainly demonstrated for atomic and molecular clusters, independently of whether they are of van-der-Waals or hydrogen bonded type. The nature of the process can be depicted as follows: Consider a cluster with two subunits, ''A'' and ''B''. Suppose an inner- valence electron is removed from subunit ''A''. If the resulting (ionized) state is higher in energy than the double ionization threshold of subunit ''A'' then an intraatomic (intramolecular) process (autoionization, in the case of core ionization Auger decay) sets in. Even though the excitation is energetically not higher than the double ionization threshol ...
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Coulometry
Coulometry determines the amount of matter transformed during an electrolysis reaction by measuring the amount of electricity (in coulombs) consumed or produced. It can be used for precision measurements of charge, and the amperes even used to have a coulometric definition. However, today coulometry is mainly used for analytical applications. Coulometry is a group of techniques in analytical chemistry. It is named after Charles-Augustin de Coulomb. There are two basic categories of coulometric techniques. ''Potentiostatic coulometry'' involves holding the electric potential constant during the reaction using a potentiostat. The other, called ''coulometric titration'' or ''amperostatic coulometry'', keeps the current (measured in amperes) constant using an amperostat. Potentiostatic coulometry Potentiostatic coulometry is a technique most commonly referred to as "bulk electrolysis". The working electrode is kept at a constant potential and the current that flows through the ...
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Sarton (crater)
Sarton is a lunar impact crater that lies beyond the northwestern limb of the Moon, on the far side from the Earth. It is located to the southwest of the crater Coulomb, to the north of the walled plain Landau. Nearly attached to the northwestern rim is the smaller Weber. Although roughly circular, this is a somewhat oddly shaped crater that is slightly elongated to the south. The western and eastern outer rims are slightly straightened, giving the crater a slightly hexagonal form. The inner wall is wider along the southern and southeastern sides than in the north. The crater is worn and its features have lost some definition. The interior floor is nearly level, with the exception of a double-peaked central rise. To the northwest of this ridge is a small, cup-shaped crater. Sarton lies within the Coulomb-Sarton Basin, a 530 km wide impact crater of Pre-Nectarian The pre-Nectarian period of the lunar geologic timescale runs from 4.533 billion years ago (the time of the initia ...
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Coulomb-Sarton Basin
The Coulomb-Sarton Basin is a Pre-Nectarian impact basin on the far side of the moon. It is named after the crater Coulomb northeast of the center of the basin and the smaller crater Sarton just south of the center. The basin is not obvious on the lunar surface. There are only small fragments of inner rings and a rim, and the most indicative topographic feature is a smooth, low plain at the center. At the center is a mass concentration (mascon), or gravitational high. The mascon was first identified by Doppler tracking of the Lunar Prospector spacecraft. The existence of the basin was confirmed by the GRAIL spacecraft. Other craters within the basin include Weber and Kramers. At the approximate margin of the basin are Dyson, Ellison, Stefan, Wegener, Wood, Landau, and Gullstrand. The large crater Birkhoff is to the northwest. File:Coulomb-Sarton basin topo.jpg, Topographic map File:Coulomb-Sarton basin GRAIL gravity.jpg, Gravity map based on GRAIL The Gravity ...
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Lunar Crater
Lunar craters are impact craters on Earth's Moon. The Moon's surface has many craters, all of which were formed by impacts. The International Astronomical Union currently recognizes 9,137 craters, of which 1,675 have been dated. History The word ''crater'' was adopted from the Greek word for "vessel" (, a Greek vessel used to mix wine and water). Galileo built his first telescope in late 1609, and turned it to the Moon for the first time on November 30, 1609. He discovered that, contrary to general opinion at that time, the Moon was not a perfect sphere, but had both mountains and cup-like depressions. These were named craters by Johann Hieronymus Schröter (1791), extending its previous use with volcanoes. Robert Hooke in ''Micrographia'' (1665) proposed two hypotheses for lunar crater formation: one, that the craters were caused by projectile bombardment from space, the other, that they were the products of subterranean lunar volcanism. Scientific opinion as to the origin ...
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Coulomb (crater)
Coulomb is a lunar impact crater that lies behind the northwestern limb, on the far side of the Moon. It is located to the west-southwest of the large crater Poczobutt, and northeast of Sarton. The rim of this crater is mildly eroded, but still retains a well-defined edge and displays some old terracing on the wide inner walls. The exterior of the crater also retains something of an outer rampart, extending for about a third of crater diameter. The satellite crater Coulomb V lies just beyond the west-northwest limb, while on the opposite side Coulomb J lies a short distance from the outer rim, forming a nearly symmetric pattern. The inner walls of the crater have only a few small impacts along the sides, with one near each of the aforementioned satellite craters. Within the sloping inner walls, the crater floor is remarkably level and nearly featureless, at least in comparison to the more rugged terrain that surrounds the crater. Only a few tiny craterlets mark this interior p ...
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Coulomb Wave Equation
In mathematics, a Coulomb wave function is a solution of the Coulomb wave equation, named after Charles-Augustin de Coulomb. They are used to describe the behavior of charged particles in a Coulomb potential and can be written in terms of confluent hypergeometric functions or Whittaker functions of imaginary argument. Coulomb wave equation The Coulomb wave equation for a single charged particle of mass m is the Schrödinger equation with Coulomb potential :\left(-\hbar^2\frac+\frac\right) \psi_(\vec) = \frac \psi_(\vec) \,, where Z=Z_1 Z_2 is the product of the charges of the particle and of the field source (in units of the elementary charge, Z=-1 for the hydrogen atom), \alpha is the fine-structure constant, and \hbar^2k^2/(2m) is the energy of the particle. The solution – Coulomb wave function – can be found by solving this equation in parabolic coordinates :\xi= r + \vec\cdot\hat, \quad \zeta= r - \vec\cdot\hat \qquad (\hat = \vec/k) \,. Depending on the boundary condit ...
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Coulomb Wave Function
In mathematics, a Coulomb wave function is a solution of the Coulomb wave equation, named after Charles-Augustin de Coulomb. They are used to describe the behavior of charged particles in a Coulomb potential and can be written in terms of confluent hypergeometric functions or Whittaker functions of imaginary argument. Coulomb wave equation The Coulomb wave equation for a single charged particle of mass m is the Schrödinger equation with Coulomb potential :\left(-\hbar^2\frac+\frac\right) \psi_(\vec) = \frac \psi_(\vec) \,, where Z=Z_1 Z_2 is the product of the charges of the particle and of the field source (in units of the elementary charge, Z=-1 for the hydrogen atom), \alpha is the fine-structure constant, and \hbar^2k^2/(2m) is the energy of the particle. The solution – Coulomb wave function – can be found by solving this equation in parabolic coordinates :\xi= r + \vec\cdot\hat, \quad \zeta= r - \vec\cdot\hat \qquad (\hat = \vec/k) \,. Depending on the boundary condit ...
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Coulomb Stress Transfer
Coulomb stress transfer is a seismic-related geological process of stress changes to surrounding material caused by local discrete deformation events. Using mapped displacements of the Earth's surface during earthquakes, the computed Coulomb stress changes suggest that the stress relieved during an earthquake not only dissipates but can also move up and down fault segments, concentrating and promoting subsequent tremors. Importantly, Coulomb stress changes have been applied to earthquake-forecasting models that have been used to assess potential hazards related to earthquake activity. Coulomb stress change The Coulomb failure criterion requires that the Coulomb stress exceeds a value σf defined by the shear stress τB, normal stress σB, pore pressure p, and coefficient of friction μ of a failure plane, such that It is also often assumed that changes in pore fluid pressure induced by changes in stress are proportional to the normal stress change across the fault plane. These ...
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