Ampere
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title:
Ampere
text:
The ampere, often shortened to amp, is the unit of electric current in the International System of Units (SI). One ampere is equal to 1 coulomb (C) moving past a point per second. It is named after French mathematician and physicist André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836), considered the father of electromagnetism along with Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted. As of the 2019 revision of the SI, the ampere is defined by fixing the elementary charge e to be exactly 1.602176634×10−19 C, which means an a
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wiki
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SI base unit of electric current
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampere
date created:
2001-08-09T23:36:23Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T19:40:06Z
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