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ampere
- Definição1
- A measure of electron (current) flow. One ampere is equal to a flow of one coulomb (6.28 billion billion electrons) past a point in one second. One ampere is also the amount of current that can be forced through one ohm of resistance by a pressure of one volt.
- Fonte1
- CRANE, Dale (ed.). Dictionary of aeronautical terms. 2nd ed. Renton: ASA, 1991.
- Definição2
- The ampere is that constant electric current which, if maintained in two straight parallel conductors of infinite length, of negligible circular cross-section, and placed 1 metre apart in vacuum, would produce between these conductors a force equal to 2 x 10-7 newton per metre of length.
- Fonte2
- INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. International civil aviation vocabulary. 3rd ed. Montreal, 2007. (Doc. 9713)
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