Coulomb

Coulomb, pronounced koo LAHM, is a unit of electric charge in the metric system. Its symbol is C. The coulomb measures the amount of electricity flowing past a cross section of an electric circuit in one second when the current is one ampere. An electric current carrying one coulomb per second is called a current of one ampere. Ampere is the unit of rate or strength of flow. The name coulomb was given to the unit to honor the French physicist Charles Augustin de Coulomb.

Contributor: Leland F. Webb, Ph.D., Prof. and Chair, Department of Mathematics, California State Univ., Bakersfield.

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