Electrostatic force via charges and distance¶

The Coulomb’s law states that the electrostatic force between two point charges in a vacuum is proportional to their values and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.

Notation:

$ε_{0}$ (epsilon_0) is vacuum_permittivity.

Links:

Wikipedia.

electrostatic_force¶: Electrostatic force between two charges.

Symbol:: F
Latex:: $F$
Dimension:: force

first_charge¶: First charge.

Symbol:: q_1
Latex:: $q_{1}$
Dimension:: charge

second_charge¶: Second charge.

Symbol:: q_2
Latex:: $q_{2}$
Dimension:: charge

distance¶: euclidean_distance between the charges.

Symbol:: d
Latex:: $d$
Dimension:: length

law¶

F = q_1 * q_2 / d^2 / (4 * pi * epsilon_0)

Latex:: $F = \frac{1}{4 π ε_{0}} \frac{q_{1} q_{2}}{d^{2}}$