Re: Etesla6 math questions

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Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>


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 > 7. I always assumed Coulombs law was inverse square (like Newtonian
gravity)
 >     rather than just plain inverse, guess I never actually checked. Is
there
 >     a handy intuitive explanation.
 >

Coulomb's law is exactly inverse square (to many sig figs of measurement)
But Coulombs law is for forces between two charges, and not potential, or
E-field.