Ohm
The standard unit in the measure of electrical resistance, being the resistance of a circuit in which a potential difference of one volt produces a current of one ampere. As defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893, and by United States Statute, it is a resistance substantially equal to 109 units of resistance of the C.G.S. system of electro-magnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice 14.4521 grams in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area, and of the length of 106.3 centimeters. As thus defined it is called the international ohm.
Related Definitions:
Ampere,
An,
And,
Area,
As,
At,
Being,
By,
Called,
Circuit,
Column,
Congress,
Constant,
Current,
Defined,
Difference,
Electric,
Electrical,
Electro-Magnetic,
Equal,
Ice,
In,
International,
Is,
It,
Length,
Mass,
Measure,
Melting,
Mercury,
Of,
Offered,
Ohm,
One,
Potential,
Resistance,
Standard,
Statute,
Substantially,
System,
Temperature,
The,
Thus,
To,
Unit,
United,
Volt,
Which
Ohm Translations
Ohm in Dutch is ohm
ohm in German is Oh, Ohm (el.Widerstand)
Copyright © 2001 - 2012 BrainyQuote
BookRags Media Network
