This physicist discovered the inverse square relationship of his namesake equation by experimenting with balls charged with static electricity that twisted fiber. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this physicist whose namesake law calculates the amount of force between two electric charges.
ANSWER: Charles-Augustin de Coulomb [accept Coulomb’s law or Coulomb equation]
[10m] Coulomb also developed his namesake model for this phenomenon, which is related to applied load and area of contact according to Amontons’s first and second law.
ANSWER: friction [accept Coulomb’s law of friction or Amonton’s laws of friction]
[10h] Coulomb’s law defines the Coulomb barrier for nuclei to react to each other which in turn results in a probability factor typically named for this physicist who developed that factor with Arthur Sommerfeld.
ANSWER: George Gamow [or Georgiy Antonovich Gamov; accept Gamow factor of Gamow-Sommerfeld factor]
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