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Coulomb potential

 
Sci-Tech Dictionary: Coulomb potential
(kü′läm pə′ten·chəl)

(electricity) A scalar point function equal to the work per unit charge done against the Coulomb force in transferring a particle bearing an infinitesimal positive charge from infinity to a point in the field of a specific charge distribution.


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