 | Karl Friedrich Peschel - Physics - 1846 - 290 pages
...position, for it must travel equally along the entire width of the conductor. In this case, the force of the current is proportional to the tangent of the angle of the needle's declination. Instruments constructed on this principle are called Tangent Compasses, and... | |
 | Henry Minchin Noad - Electricity - 1855 - 574 pages
...magnetic meridian, and when the current is transmitted through it, the needle deviates, and the force of the current is proportional to the tangent of the angle of the needle's declination, whence the name given to the instrument. The needle is provided transversely... | |
 | Thomas Graham - Chemistry, Inorganic - 1858 - 880 pages
...the earth is constant at the same place (at least for short intervals of time), the magnetic force of the current is proportional to the tangent of the angle of deflection : hence the name of the instrument. Comparison between the chemical and magnetic actions of the current.... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1864 - 1112 pages
...usual method, and 0 the angle of deviation of the magnet suspended in the centre of the circle. As the strength of the current is proportional to the tangent of the angle в, an instrument constructed on this plan is caUcd a tangent galvanometer. The instrument called a... | |
 | John Charles Buckmaster - Physics - 1864 - 216 pages
...compass, and state how it must be arranged to determine the strength of an electric current . Prove that the strength of the current is proportional to the tangent of the deflection. ( 2 4.) EXAMINATION FOR SCIENCE CERTIFICATES, NOVEMBER, 1864. Group III., Subject I.-ACOUSTICS,... | |
 | Physics - 1865 - 1144 pages
...usual method, and 6 the angle of deviation of the magnet suspended in the centre of the circle. As the strength of the current is proportional to the tangent of the angle 6, an instrument constructed on this plan is called a tangent galvanometer. The instrument called a... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1917 - 586 pages
...observations with an ammeter and n tangent galvanometer is followed by the remark : "This demonstrates that the current is proportional to the tangent of the angle of deflection." As the tangent galvanometer is an absolute instrument, it is obvious that no such result can be proved... | |
 | John Charles Buckmaster - Electricity - 1871 - 224 pages
...plane of the magnetic meridian. When the current passes the needle will be deflected. The intensity of the current is proportional to the tangent of the angle of deflection. An instrument constructed for thus testing the intensity of the current is known as the tangent galvanometer... | |
 | George Farrer Rodwell - Physical sciences - 1871 - 620 pages
...measurement may be accomplished. If the current be passed through a tangent galvanometer (see Galvanometer), the strength of the current is proportional to the tangent of the angle through which the needle is deflected. By including1, therefore, a voltameter and a tangent galvanometer... | |
 | British association comm. on electr. standards - 1873 - 284 pages
...usual method, and d the angle of deviation of the magnet suspended in the centre of the circle. As the strength of the current is proportional to the tangent of the angle d, an instrument constructed on this plan ia called a tangent galvanometer. The instrument called a... | |
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Under these conditions the strength of the current is proportional to the tangent of the angle of deflection. 
