statcoulomb
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The statcoulomb (statC), franklin (Fr), or electrostatic unit of charge (esu) is the unit of measurement for electrical charge used in the centimetre–gram–second electrostatic units variant (CGS-ESU) and Gaussian systems of units. In terms of the Gaussian base units, it is
Key facts
- Unit.name
- statcoulomb
- Unit.standard
- Gaussian, CGS-ESU
- Unit.quantity
- electric charge
- Unit.symbol
- Fr
- Unit.symbol2
- statC, esu
- Unit.extralabel
- Derivation
- Unit.extradata
- dyn1/2⋅cm
- Unit.units1
- CGS base units
- Unit.inunits1
- 1 cm3/2⋅g1/2⋅s−1
- Unit.units2
- SI (charge)
- Unit.inunits2
- ≘ ~
- Unit.units3
- SI (flux)
- Unit.inunits3
- ≘ ~
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- conversion to SI unit
- 0.000000000333564095198152049575576714474918511792581519845972909698748992544702375401318468125038689265491795660850147
- unit symbol
- statC
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- Definition and relation to CGS base units
- Conversion between systems
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The statcoulomb (statC), franklin (Fr), or electrostatic unit of charge (esu) is the unit of measurement for electrical charge used in the centimetre–gram–second electrostatic units variant (CGS-ESU) and Gaussian systems of units. In terms of the Gaussian base units, it is
That is, it is defined so that the proportionality constant in Coulomb's law using CGS-ESU quantities is a dimensionless quantity equal to 1.