Who Discovered Coulomb's Law and the Concept of Electric Field Lines?

[pmb_phy]

Does anyone know when Coulomb discovered his law? And does anyone know when the concept of electric field lines was invented? I know that Faraday created the idea for the magnetic field and I was wondering if it was he who applied it to the electric field or was it someone else?

Sources of information will be appreciated since I will eventually have to refer to the source of information.

Thank you

Pete

 

[pmb_phy]

Does anyone know when Coulomb discovered his law? And does anyone know when the concept of electric field lines was invented? I know that Faraday created the idea for the magnetic field and I was wondering if it was he who applied it to the electric field or was it someone else?

Sources of information will be appreciated since I will eventually have to refer to the source of information.

Thank you

Pete

Well I found the Coulomb part. His experiment was published in

Charles A. de Coulomb, History Royal Acad. Sci. (France), 1785, pp. 569 and 579.

The rest I'm still searching for. Thanks.

Pete

 

[astrokreng]

Coulomb's Law was first discovered by French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb in 1785. He published his findings in the paper "Premier Mémoire sur l'Électricité et le Magnétisme" (First Memoir on Electricity and Magnetism). This law states that the force between two charged particles is directly proportional to the product of their charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.

The concept of electric field lines was first introduced by Michael Faraday in the 19th century. He observed that electric charges create an electric field around them, and he represented this field using lines of force. These lines show the direction and strength of the electric field at different points in space.

It is important to note that while Faraday is credited with introducing the concept of electric field lines, it was actually developed independently by several scientists, including Carl Friedrich Gauss and Joseph-Louis Lagrange. However, Faraday's contributions to the understanding of electromagnetic fields were significant and he is often referred to as the "father of electromagnetism."

Sources:

- "Coulomb's Law." Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 9 Oct. 2019, www.britannica.com/science/Coulombs-law.

- "Electric Field Lines." HyperPhysics, Georgia State University, hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/elefie.html.

- "Michael Faraday." Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 3 Dec. 2019, www.britannica.com/biography/Michael-Faraday.