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Title: What's the deal with Coloumb?
Post by: Chavi on April 17, 2010, 10:24:11 pm
So apparently 1 coloumb is such a massive amount, that two 1 coloumb charges placed 1m away from each other would result in a Hmassive explosion.
On the other hand, 1 Coloumb flows through a circuit of 1 amp every second, and 1 amp is relatively small amount.
How is this problem reconciled?
Title: Re: What's the deal with Coloumb?
Post by: physics on April 17, 2010, 10:34:12 pm
i think their different things even if they have the same name...i think so :S but not sure
Title: Re: What's the deal with Coloumb?
Post by: kyzoo on April 18, 2010, 02:35:13 am
So apparently 1 coloumb is such a massive amount, that two 1 coloumb charges placed 1m away from each other would result in a Hmassive explosion.
On the other hand, 1 Coloumb flows through a circuit of 1 amp every second, and 1 amp is relatively small amount.
How is this problem reconciled?

0.o Good question haha

But I think 1 amp is a large amount of current as well, I'm pretty sure you're working mostly in terms of mA in VCE Physics
Title: Re: What's the deal with Coloumb?
Post by: the.watchman on April 18, 2010, 08:09:15 am
So apparently 1 coloumb is such a massive amount, that two 1 coloumb charges placed 1m away from each other would result in a Hmassive explosion.
On the other hand, 1 Coloumb flows through a circuit of 1 amp every second, and 1 amp is relatively small amount.
How is this problem reconciled?

0.o Good question haha

But I think 1 amp is a large amount of current as well, I'm pretty sure you're working mostly in terms of mA in VCE Physics

Yeah, the majority of measurements you take in VCE physics are in mA, ours are usually around 5-100mA :)