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by creato 2858 days ago
> And how much energy is in one Coulomb. The example I like is two points each with one Coulomb repel with a force of one millions tons.

To have any meaning, you also need to consider the distance between the points. Any two charged points can repel each other with a force of one million tons given a particular distance.

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I looked up the example and it's mentions the two objects are separated by one meter.

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/elecur.h...