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  2. Ampere - Wikipedia

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    As of the 2019 revision of the SI, the ampere is defined by fixing the elementary charge e to be exactly 1.602 176 634 × 10 −19 C, [6] [9] which means an ampere is an electric current equivalent to 10 19 elementary charges moving every 1.602 176 634 seconds or 6.241 509 074 × 10 18 elementary charges moving in a second.

  3. Orders of magnitude (current) - Wikipedia

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    1 A Typical iPhone charger (5 W) 1.35 A Tesla coil, 0.76 meters (2 ft 6 in) high, at 200 kV and 270 kV peak [4] 2.1 A High power LED current (peak 2.7 A) [5] 5 A One typical 12 V motor vehicle headlight (typically 60 W) 9 A 230 V AC, toaster, kettle (2 kW) 10 1: 10 or 20 A 230 V AC, Europe common domestic circuit breaker rating 15 or 20 A

  4. Historical definitions of the SI base units - Wikipedia

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    ampere: A electric current "The ampere is that constant current which, if maintained in two straight parallel conductors of infinite length, of negligible circular cross-section, and placed 1 metre apart in vacuum, would produce between these conductors a force equal to 2 × 10 −7 newton per metre of length." 9th CGPM (1948)

  5. Electric current - Wikipedia

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    In the International System of Units (SI), electric current is expressed in units of ampere (sometimes called an "amp", symbol A), which is equivalent to one coulomb per second. The ampere is an SI base unit and electric current is a base quantity in the International System of Quantities (ISQ). [4]: 15 Electric current is also known as ...

  6. International System of Electrical and Magnetic Units

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    The International System of Electrical and Magnetic Units is an obsolete system of units used for measuring electrical and magnetic quantities. It was proposed as a system of practical international units (e.g., the international ampere, the international ohm, the international volt) by unanimous recommendation at the International Electrical Congress (Chicago, 1893), discussed at other ...

  7. Ampère's force law - Wikipedia

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    The best-known and simplest example of Ampère's force law, which underlaid (before 20 May 2019 [1]) the definition of the ampere, the SI unit of electric current, states that the magnetic force per unit length between two straight parallel conductors is

  8. Glossary of engineering: A–L - Wikipedia

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    The SI unit for measuring an electric current is the ampere, which is the flow of electric charge across a surface at the rate of one coulomb per second. Electric current is measured using a device called an ammeter. [173] Electric displacement field In physics, the electric displacement field, denoted by D, is a vector field that appears in ...

  9. Current sensing - Wikipedia

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    In electrical engineering, current sensing is any one of several techniques used to measure electric current. The measurement of current ranges from picoamps to tens of thousands of amperes. The selection of a current sensing method depends on requirements such as magnitude, accuracy, bandwidth, robustness, cost, isolation or size. The current ...