Wheatstone bridge

Wheat·stone bridge

a divided bridge circuit (see bridge, noun) having four resistances in series, used to find the value of an unknown resistance by comparing it with three known resistances
a device containing such a circuit

Origin of Wheatstone bridge

after Sir Charles Wheatstone (1802-75), Eng physicist

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Wheatstone bridge

also Wheat·stone's bridge

noun

An instrument or a circuit consisting of four resistors or their equivalent in series, used to determine the value of an unknown resistance when the other three resistances are known.

Origin of Wheatstone bridge

After Sir Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875), British physicist and inventor

Wheatstone bridge

The equation to calculate the unknown resistance when the galvanometer reads 0 is R_u

= (

^R₂_R₁

) R_v.

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Noun

(plural Wheatstone bridges)

An instrument used to measure an unknown electrical resistance by balancing two legs of a bridge circuit, one leg of which includes the unknown component.

Origin

After Sir Charles Wheatstone, who improved and popularized the original (1833) invention of Samuel Hunter Christie.

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