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Vacuum permittivity

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Verified for the 2027 examโ€ขWritten by the Fiveable Content Team โ€ข Last updated August 2025

Definition

A fundamental constant representing the electric permittivity of free space, appearing in Coulomb's law and other electrostatic relationships.

AP course connection

Topic 8.1: 8.1 Electric Charge and Electric Force

Unit 8

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