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The inverse-square electrostatic force or potential between ideal point charges in vacuum.
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Coulomb used a torsion balance to compare electrostatic forces between charged bodies; the measurements and analysis materially shaped the early quantitative inverse-square formulation of electrostatics.
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Coulomb’s law is the vacuum point-charge solution of electrostatics.
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The Coulomb force derives from the electrostatic potential.
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