Replacing Coulombs with Meters
| Article | |
|---|---|
| Title | Replacing Coulombs with Meters |
| Author(s) | Jeff Yee |
| Published in | Beyond Mainstream |
| Date | 2019-03-23 |
| Subject area | Physics |
| Topics | units, charge, electromagnetism |
Read online | Read the full article |
Archived copy | Archived version |
| Retrieved | 2026-07-23 |
"Replacing Coulombs with Meters" is an article by Jeff Yee published on 23 March 2019 on Beyond Mainstream.
Yee argues that naming units after Coulomb, Newton, Ampere and Tesla, while a fitting honour, has helped keep the electrical and mechanical domains of physics apart: a student meeting a named unit is less likely to ask what it actually measures. Most such units reduce to simpler SI terms — the ampere to coulombs per second — and he contends that one unit in particular, once simplified, bridges the gap between the two domains.