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The standard ampere is most accurately realized using a watt balance, but is in practice maintained via Ohm's Law from the units of electromotive force and resistance, the volt and the ohm, since the latter two can be tied to physical phenomena that are relatively easy to reproduce, the Josephson junction and the quantum Hall effect, respectively.

At present, techniques to establish the realization of an ampere have a relative uncertainty of approximately a few parts in 10 < sup > 7 </ sup >, and involve realizations of the watt, the ohm and the volt.

In recognition of his contribution to the creation of modern electrical science, an international convention signed in 1881 established the ampere as a standard unit of electrical measurement, along with the coulomb, volt, ohm, and watt, which are named, respectively, after Ampère ’ s contemporaries Charles-Augustin de Coulomb of France, Alessandro Volta of Italy, Georg Ohm of Germany, and James Watt of Scotland.

The standard cable used in the U. S. is RG-6, which has a 75 ohm impedance, and connects with a type F connector.

Practical applications and advances in such fields created an increasing need for standardized units of measure ; it led to the international standardization of the units ohm, volt, ampere, coulomb, and watt.

* ohm ( resistance )

The ohm, the unit of resistance, was named in honour of Georg Ohm, and is symbolised by the Greek letter Ω.

So an amplifier that is said to have a gain of 20 dB might have a voltage gain of ten times and an available power gain of much more than 20 dB ( 100 times power ratio ), yet be delivering a much lower power gain if, for example, the input is a 600 ohm microphone and the output is a 47 kilohm power amplifier's input socket.

It is equal to the energy expended ( or work done ) in applying a force of one newton through a distance of one metre ( 1 newton metre or N · m ), or in passing an electric current of one ampere through a resistance of one ohm for one second.

LTC can also be distributed via 75 ohm video cable and video distribution amplifiers, although the voltage attenuation caused by using a 75 ohm system may cause the signal to drop to a level that can not be read by some equipment.

** For ohm – SI unit of electrical resistance ; formerly also used upside down () to represent mho, the old name for the inverse of an ohm ( now siemens with symbol S ) used for electrical conductance.

Unicode has a separate code point for the ohm sign ( U + 2126, Ω ), but it is only included for backwards compatibility and the Greek uppercase omega character ( U + 03A9, Ω ) is preferred.

File: Georg Simon Ohm3. jpg | Georg Ohm ( 1789-1854 ): found that there is a direct proportionality between the electric current I and the potential difference ( voltage ) V applied across a conductor, and that this current is inversely proportional to the resistance R in the circuit, or I = V / R, known as Ohm's law, namesake of the unit of electrical resistance ( the ohm )

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The ohm ( symbol: Ω ) is the SI unit of electrical resistance, named after Georg Simon Ohm.

An ohm is equivalent to a volt per ampere.

Hence, siemens is the reciprocal of an ohm:.

For example, if a 300 ohm resistor is attached across the terminals of a 12 volt battery, then a current of 12 / 300 = 0. 04 amperes ( or 40 milliamperes ) flows through that resistor.

Each end of the cable had a 50 ohm ( Ω ) resistor attached.

For coaxial-cable-based Ethernet, each end of the cable has a 50 ohm ( Ω ) resistor attached.

Again for the case of a hypothetical 1 mA, 500 ohm movement on a 1 Ampere range, the shunt resistance would be just over 0. 5 ohms.

For example, a meter reading 5½ stable digits may indicate that one nominally 100, 000 ohm resistor is about 7 ohms greater than another, although the error of each measurement is 0. 2 % of reading plus 0. 05 % of full-scale value.

The SI unit of characteristic impedance is the ohm.