The franklin (Fr), statcoulomb (statC), or electrostatic unit of charge (esu) is the unit of measurement for electrical charge used in the centimetre–gram–second...
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in honour of the physicist Peter J. W. Debye. It is defined as 10−18 statcoulomb-centimetres. Historically the debye was defined as the dipole moment...
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F={\frac {{q_{\text{s}}}^{2}}{r^{2}}}.} The unit of Gaussian charge, the statcoulomb, is such that two units, at a distance of 1 centimetre apart, repel each...
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capacitor. One ampere hour equals 3600 C, hence 1 mA⋅h = 3.6 C. One statcoulomb (statC), the obsolete CGS electrostatic unit of charge (esu), is approximately...
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\delta } in units of 10−10 statcoulomb and the distance d in Angstroms. Based on the conversion factor of 10−10 statcoulomb being 0.208 units of elementary...
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792458 volts. The statvolt is also defined in the CGS system as 1 erg / statcoulomb. It is a useful unit for electromagnetism because, in a vacuum, an electric...
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\over r^{2}}.} The ESU unit of charge, franklin (Fr), also known as statcoulomb or esu charge, is therefore defined as follows: two equal point charges...
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unit equivalent to the capacitance of a capacitor with a charge of 1 statcoulomb across a potential difference of 1 statvolt. It is 1/(10−5 c2) farad...
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electric charge has been named after him: one franklin (Fr) is equal to one statcoulomb. Franklin advised Harvard University in its acquisition of new electrical...
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It is defined as 10−26 statcoulomb-square centimetre. This is equivalent to 1 debye-ångström, where 1 debye = 10−18 statcoulomb-centimetre is the CGS unit...
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