Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Ohm's Law

OHM'S LAW, in electricity, a law enunciated by Professor Ohm, in 1827, for determining the quantity of electromotive force in a voltaic battery. It is that the intensity of the current in a voltaic current is equal to the electromotive force divided by the resistance.

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