As a unit of resistance, the international Ohm. which is based upon the ohm equal to 109 units of resistance of the CGS system of electro-magnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury... Heat, electricity, and magnetism - Page 274by Henry Smith Carhart - 1896Full view - About this book
| United States. National Bureau of Standards - Chemistry - 1944 - 968 pages
...maintenance of the international units is necessary. The international ohm as established in 1893 was "represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying...constant cross-sectional area and of a length of 106.3 cms." The mass of mercury was chosen to give a cross-sectional area of 1 square mm and a length of... | |
| Almanacs, American - 1920 - 1042 pages
...per hour to feet per minute.. 88. ELECTRICAL UNITS DEFINED. Ohm — Unit of resistance: represent*; resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of ALMANAC AND YEAR-BOOK FOR 1081. Ic*. 14.S421 grnms in masi. of a ornss-sectional area of 1.00003 square... | |
| George Edward Plumbe, James Langland, Claude Othello Pike - Almanacs, American - 1918 - 1030 pages
...per hour to leet per minute.. 88. ELECTRICAL UNITS DEFINED. Ohm — Unit of resistance: represents resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature ol ice. 14.5431 grams in mass, ol a cross-sectional area ol 1.00003 square millimeters and of the length... | |
| Almanacs, American - 1924 - 1040 pages
...meters) =. 2.471 acres ELECTRICAL UNITS DEFINED. Ohm— Unit of resistance; represents resistance onored 2j L㼚 n0 g M `w ƞ9 ս ֯^ ec 8 #G 0 W +D 2ɥ}# HO B 4 ice. 14.5431 irr.-nns in mass, of a cross-sectional area of 1.0(100.4 square millimeter* and of the... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - Science - 1894 - 1096 pages
...bused upon the ohm equal to 109 units of resistance of the CGS system of electro-magnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying...column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice 14-4521 grammes in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area and of the length of 106-3 cm. As a unit... | |
| United States - Naval law - 1945 - 724 pages
...thousand -Million units of resistance of the centimeter-gram-second system of electro-magnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying...column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice fourteen and four thousand five hundred and twenty-one ten-thousandths grams in mass, of a constant... | |
| Great Britain - Delegated legislation - 1904 - 516 pages
...: — 1. The ohm, which has the value of 109 in terms of the centimetre and the second of time and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying...column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice 14'4521 grammes in muss of a constant cross sectional area and of a length of 106v:{ centimetres. '2.... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1894 - 1144 pages
...equal to 10a units of resistance of the Centuueter-Grainme-Second system of electro-magnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying...column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice li-4521 grammes in rnstss, of a constant cross-sectional area and of the length of lOti.3 centimeters.... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1894 - 1040 pages
...Centimeter-Gramme-Second system of electro-magnetic units, and Is represented by the resistance offered to aim unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice 144521 gramnme¿ in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area and of the length of 106.3 cemitimeters.... | |
| Institute of Physics and the Physical Society - Physics - 1895 - 768 pages
...water. Electrical. 4-186 x107 4-198 X107 778 780 1894. and Gannon. Electrical. 4-192x10' 779 " 4. That the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury of a constant cross sectional area of one square millimetre and of a. length of 106'3 centimetres,... | |
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