are coulombs and charge the same?
One coulomb is equal to the amount of charge from a current of one ampere flowing for one second. One coulomb is equal to the charge on 6.241 x 1018 protons. The charge on 1 proton is 1.6 x 10-19 C. Conversely, the charge of an electron is -1.6 x 10-19 C.