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Definition of Ohmic resistance

1. Noun. A material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ohmic Resistance

Literary usage of Ohmic resistance

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Experimental Electrical Engineering and Manual for Electrical Testing for by Vladimir Karapetoff (1922)
"(5), clearly indicates the influence of an ohmic resistance in series with a reactance ... When a coil has an appreciable ohmic resistance, its reactance is ..."

2. Mathematical and Physical Papers: Collected from Different Scientific by Baron William Thomson Kelvin, Sir Joseph Larmor, James Prescott Joule (1890)
"Hence, with N = 80 we find thus in respect to the ohmic resistance of the whole wire, we may for copper take the column headed q as the diameter of the wire ..."

3. Methods of Measuring Electrical Resistance by Edwin Fitch Northrup (1912)
"Comments on ohmic resistance. — An ohmic resistance, considered as a quantity to be measured, may be viewed in two ways. If we call E the drop of potential ..."

4. Principles of Alternating Current Machinery by Ralph Restieaux Lawrence (1920)
"If the motor has a wound rotor, the ohmic resistance of its rotor may be measured directly. It must be referred to the primary as in a transformer before it ..."

5. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1911)
"210 INSULATION RESISTANCE is the ohmic resistance offered by an insulating ... Since the ohmic resistance of the insulation can be very greatly increased by ..."

6. Theory and Calculation of Alternating Current Phenomena by Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1916)
"While the true ohmic resistance represents the expenditure of power as heat inside of the electric conductor by a current of uniform density, the effective ..."

7. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1906)
"That latter potential drop is due to chemical work being performed, and has no connection whatever with ordinary ohmic resistance and Ohm's laws. ..."

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