Ohm's Law Definition

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noun
A law which states that the current in a DC circuit is directly proportional to the applied voltage and inversely proportional to the resistance.
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Origin of Ohm's Law

  • From Georg Ohm, German physicist

    From Wiktionary

  • After Georg Simon Ohm

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Ohm's Law Sentence Examples

  • Ohm in 1827, and since known as Ohm's Law.

  • But the ions of an electrolytic solution can move independently through the liquid, even when no current flows, as the consequences of Ohm's law indicate.

  • Clerk Maxwell and George Chrystal that Ohm's law is true, within the limits of experimental error, even when the currents are so powerful as almost to fuse the conducting wire.

  • We conclude by applying Ohm's law that the electromotive force, E, of the thermocouple may be approximately represented for small differences of temperature by the formula E=CR=p(t-t').

  • To find the dc collector current, measure the dc voltage across the emitter resistor and use ohm's law.

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