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Constant, instantaneous and average current are expressed in amperes (as in "the charging current is 1.2 A") and the charge accumulated (or passed through a circuit) over a period of time is expressed in coulombs (as in "the
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as a fundamental relationship, with the CGS unit of charge defined by measuring the force between two charged metal plates. The CGS unit of current is then defined as one unit of charge per second.
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states that there is an attractive or repulsive force between two parallel wires carrying an electric current. This force is used in the formal definition of the ampere.
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The ampere is that constant current which, if maintained in two straight parallel conductors of infinite length, of negligible circular cross-section, and placed one
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is defined as the product of current and voltage, the ampere can alternatively be expressed in terms of the other units using the relationship
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elementary charges moving in a second. Prior to the redefinition the ampere was defined as the current passing through two parallel wires 1
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per centimetre of length between two wires one centimetre apart. The size of the unit was chosen so that the units derived from it in the
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Draft Resolution A "On the revision of the International System of units (SI)" to be submitted to the CGPM at its 26th meeting (2018)
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The "international ampere" was an early realization of the ampere, defined as the current that would deposit
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of approximately a few parts in 10, and involved realisations of the watt, the ohm and the volt.
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when expressed in the unit C, which is equal to A⋅s, where the second is defined in terms of
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SI supports only the use of symbols and deprecates the use of abbreviations for units.
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and electrical appliances, but are defined independently of the ampere, notably the
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has two units of current, one structured similarly to the SI's and the other using
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solution. Later, more accurate measurements revealed that this current is
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apart in vacuum, would produce between these conductors a force equal to
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There are also some SI units that are frequently used in the context of
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respectively) with all other SI units being defined using these. These
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This definition of the ampere was most accurately realised using a
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Beyond the Kilogram: Redefining the International System of Units
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representing seven fundamental types of physical quantity, or
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defined the ampere by taking the fixed numerical value of the
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The ampere was originally defined as one tenth of the unit of
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Like other SI units, the ampere can be modified by adding a
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Techniques to establish the realisation of an ampere had a
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The ampere is named for French physicist and mathematician
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The NIST Reference on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty
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Index

Ampere (disambiguation)

ammeter
Unit system
SI
electric current
André-Marie Ampère
/ˈæmpɛər/
AM-pair
US
/ˈæmpɪər/
AM-peer
shortened
electric current
International System of Units
coulomb
French
André-Marie Ampère
electromagnetism
Danish
Hans Christian Ørsted
2019 revision of the SI
elementary charge
metre
newtons
CGS system
Coulomb's law
International System of Electrical and Magnetic Units
André-Marie Ampère
electromagnetism

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