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... Philosophical Magazine - Page 1471895Full view - About this book
| Electrical engineering - 1891 - 860 pages
...denominated the ohm, and should have the value, 1000,000,000 in terms of the centimetre and second. 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 10(>'3 centimetres... | |
| Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) - Electronic journals - 1915 - 974 pages
...Electrical Units and Standards (London, 1908). The London Conference defined the international ohm as 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 106.300 centimetres.... | |
| Science - 1895 - 1104 pages
...of resistance of the oentimeter-gram-secoud 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 fourteen and four thousand five hundred and twenty-one ten-thousandths grams in mass, of a constant... | |
| John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1895 - 758 pages
...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 electric current...column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice 14.4521 grammes in a mass of a constant cross sectional area and of a length of 106.3 centimetres.... | |
| National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) - Science - 1888 - 840 pages
...of resistance of the centimeter-gram-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 fourteen and four thousand five hundred and twentyone ten-thousandths grains in mass, of a constant... | |
| National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) - Science - 1890 - 682 pages
...of resistance of the centimeter-gram-second system of electro-magnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of merenry at the temperature of melting ice fourteen and four thousand live hundred and twenty-one ten-thousandths... | |
| Great Britain - Law - 1894 - 610 pages
...ohm, which has the value 109 in 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.... | |
| Electrical engineering - 1891 - 680 pages
...denominated the ohm, and should have the value 1,000,000,000 in terms of the centimetre and second. 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 at... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1892 - 1258 pages
...denominated the ohm, and should have the value 1,000,000,000 in terms of the centimetre and second. 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 at... | |
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