Thursday, December 1, 2022

What is meaning of Ampere as unit of current , and what exactly is a 'unit' of electric current ?

 Some history behind why Ampere is unit of current :

  • While it was known that force is imposed -> and subsequent motion between two bodies each having an electric charge,
  • Known through columb's law- > Electric force between two static bodies is directly proportional to product of charges and divided by square of distance,
  • Which was somehow just like the gravitational law !,
  • Marie Ampere observed that -> when electricity is passed between two adjacent wires- > it imposes a force on each other
  • If currents are in same direction-> Wires attract each other,
  • Unit of current was made in honour of his research,
  • Definition of current - A hypothetical case of 2 thin and infinite wires , 1 m apart , 1 Amp is 'current' that generates 2x 10^-7 N of 'force' per 'every m' of wire
  • Very small force and strange definition indeed, but this is what is behind the definition !

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