As a unit of resistance, the international ohm, which is based upon the ohm equal to 10" units of resistance of the CGS system of electromagnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury... Nature - Page 120edited by - 1893Full view - About this book
| United States. Bureau of Standards - Physics - 1905 - 542 pages
...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...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 centimeters.... | |
| William Hallock, Herbert Treadwell Wade - Metric system - 1906 - 334 pages
...resistance of the Centimeter-Gramme-Second System of electro- magnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current...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 centimeters.... | |
| John Roberts (Electrical engineer.) - Electric engineering - 1906 - 238 pages
...Ohm, which has the value 10° iu terms of the centimetre and the second of time, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current...column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice 14-4521 grammes in mass of a constant cross-sectional area, and of a length of 106-3 centimetres. 2.... | |
| Silvanus Phillips Thompson - Electric power - 1906 - 674 pages
...the Centimetre-Gramme-Second system of electromagnetic units, and is represented by the resistauce offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice I4•452I -grammes in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area and of the length of i06'3 centimetres.... | |
| Lynn Banks McMullen - Physics - 1906 - 474 pages
...zinc ELECTRICITY. TABLE XLa. UNITS DEFINED BY THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ELECTRICIANS. The Ohm is the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury 106.3 centimeters long, 14.4521 grams in mass, of constant cross-section (about 1 sq. mm.), and at... | |
| Henry Hutchinson Norris - Electric engineering - 1907 - 460 pages
...legal or international ohm is that represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electrical current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice and having a mass of 14.4521 grammes. This column has a constant cross-sectional area and a length... | |
| William Hannum Grubb Bullard - Electric engineering - 1908 - 990 pages
...equal to 10" units of resistance of the CGS system of electromagnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current...column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice, 14.4521 grammes in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area, and of a length of 106.3 centimetres.... | |
| Stanley Holmes Moore - Machine-shop practice - 1908 - 532 pages
...resistance is one ohm, will produce a current of one ampere. Ohm, R, is the unit of resistance and is the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at 32 degrees F., having a constant cross-sectional area, a weight of 14.4521 grams and a length of 106.3... | |
| Alexander Wilmer Duff - Physics - 1909 - 726 pages
...units of resistance of the centimetergram-second system of electromagnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current...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."... | |
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