(electricity) A centimeter-gram-second system of electric and magnetic units in which the unit of charge is that charge which exerts a force of 1 dyne on another unit charge when separated from it by a distance of 1 centimeter in vacuum; other units are derived from this definition by assigning unit coefficients in equations relating electric and magnetic quantities. Abbreviated esu.
electrostatic units
| Sci-Tech Dictionary: electrostatic units |
(i′lek·trə′stad·ik ′yü·nəts)
| 5min Related Video: electrostatic units |
Learn More
 | energy of a charge (electricity) |
| c.g.s. unit |
| classical electron radius (electromagnetism) |
Help us answer these
Post a question - any question - to the WikiAnswers community:
Copyrights:
 |
 | Sci-Tech Dictionary. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. Copyright © 2003, 1994, 1989, 1984, 1978, 1976, 1974 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Read more |
Related answers
- What is Electrostatic?
- What is electrostatics?
- What is an electrostatic precipitator?
- What is an electrostatic copier?
ADVERTISEMENT
Answer these
- How many volts are there in electrostatic unit?
- What is electrostatic unit of proton?
- How electrostatics works?
- What is Electrostatic bonds?
Mentioned in
- energy of a charge (electricity)
- c.g.s. unit
- classical electron radius (electromagnetism)
- Larmor formula (electromagnetism)
- Larmor frequency (electromagnetism)
- Rosa and Dorsey method (electromagnetism)
- Thomson cross section (electromagnetism)
- electric constant (electricity)
- magnetomechanical factor (physics)
- permittivity (electricity)
- dielectric constant (electricity)
- fine-structure constant (physics)
- Gaussian system (electromagnetism)
- electric and magnetic units (measure, unit – in electricity)
