Descripción: Universitá degli Studi di Pavia.
«One of the most famous laws of electrostatics is Coulomb’s Law. It is in all Physics books. It is usually presented as a result of experiments and a further proof of Newton’s Law of Gravity. Indeed Coulomb’s Law is very much like Newton’s.
But can we really state that it is the result of experiments and that the action at a distance model is confirmed?
To provide an answer, the two articles (of 1785 and 1787) are here reproduced, in which Coulomb explains the "law". We have made a 3D reconstruction of the two instruments invented and used by the French scientist: the torsion balance and the electric pendulum.. You are offered the possibility of making a quantitative simulation of Coulomb’s experiments.»
