Re: electrical units

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Original poster: "Dr. Resonance" <resonance-at-jvlnet-dot-com> 


Suggested reading:

A History of Physics   by Florian CaJori

Dr. Resonance

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 >  >I have no idea where the Volt came from, or the Ampere, for that matter.
 > I suspect they were totally arbitrary.
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 > Good question. This is all I remember:
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 > One Ampare is one Coulomb of charge flowing past a point per second.
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 > A volt is the EMF required to force one Ampare through one Ohm.
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 > Now... was the Coulomb (6.25 x 10^18 electrons) defined first and if so
how?
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 > And the Ohm?
 >
 > Tom L.
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