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  2. Ohm's law - Wikipedia

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    Ohm's law has been observed on a wide range of length scales. In the early 20th century, it was thought that Ohm's law would fail at the atomic scale, but experiments have not borne out this expectation. As of 2012, researchers have demonstrated that Ohm's law works for silicon wires as small as four atoms wide and one atom high. [17]

  3. List of eponymous laws - Wikipedia

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    The name "Eroom" is "Moore" spelled backward, in order to contrast it with Moore's law. Euler's laws of motion: extends Newton's laws of motion for point particle to rigid body motion. Faraday's law of induction: a magnetic field changing in time creates a proportional electromotive force. Named for Michael Faraday, based on his work in 1831.

  4. Georg Ohm - Wikipedia

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    Georg Simon Ohm (/ oʊ m /; [1] German: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈʔoːm]; [2] [3] 16 March 1789 – 6 July 1854) was a German mathematician and physicist.As a school teacher, Ohm began his research with the new electrochemical cell, invented by Italian scientist Alessandro Volta.

  5. List of scientific laws named after people - Wikipedia

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    Boyle's law: Thermodynamics: Robert Boyle: Bragg's Law: Physics William Lawrence Bragg, William Henry Bragg: Bradford's law: Computer science: Samuel C. Bradford: Bruun Rule: Earth science Per Bruun Buys Ballot's law: Meteorology: C.H.D. Buys Ballot: Byerlee's law: Geophysics: James Byerlee: Carnot's theorem: Thermodynamics: Nicolas Léonard ...

  6. History of the metric system - Wikipedia

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    In the 1820s, Georg Ohm formulated Ohm's Law, which can be extended to relate power to current, electric potential (voltage), and resistance. [ 49 ] [ 50 ] During the following decades, the realisation of a coherent system of units that incorporated the measurement of electromagnetic phenomena and Ohm's law was beset with problems—several ...

  7. History of electromagnetic theory - Wikipedia

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    As another writer has said, with the coming of Jenkin's and Maxwell's books all impediments in the way of electrical students were removed, "the full meaning of Ohm's law becomes clear; electromotive force, difference of potential, resistance, current, capacity, lines of force, magnetization and chemical affinity were measurable, and could be ...

  8. Introduction to electromagnetism - Wikipedia

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    Ohm's law states the relationship between the current I and the voltage V of a circuit by introducing the quantity known as resistance R [35] Ohm's law: = / Power is defined as = so Ohm's law can be used to tell us the power of the circuit in terms of other quantities [36]

  9. André-Marie Ampère - Wikipedia

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    André-Marie Ampère (UK: / ˈ æ m p ɛər /, US: / ˈ æ m p ɪər /; [1] French: [ɑ̃dʁe maʁi ɑ̃pɛʁ]; 20 January 1775 – 10 June 1836) [2] was a French physicist and mathematician who was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as electrodynamics.