The amount positive or negative electricity deposited on a body. The MKS unit of charge is the Coulomb, while
the cgs unit is the electrostatic unit, or esu. The smallest measurable unit of charge is that carried by
the electron, where
Coulomb or
esu. Although
quarks carry units of charge of
It is an unfortunate accident of history that Benjamin Franklin Eric Weisstein's World of Biography chose to call "positive" the charge opposite that carried by the usual charge carriers (i.e., electrons).
Charge Four-Vector, Coulomb, Coulomb's Law, Current, Electric Force, Electron, Esu, Hypercharge, Negative Charge, Neutral, Positive Charge, Proton
