George simon ohm personal background
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Georg Ohm
German mathematician and physicist (1789–1854)
Georg Simon Ohm (;[1]German:[ˈɡeːɔʁkˈʔoːm];[2][3] 16 March 1789 – 6 July 1854) was a German mathematician and physicist. As a school teacher, Ohm began his research with the new electrochemical cell, invented by Italian scientist Alessandro Volta. Using equipment of his own creation, Ohm found that there is a direct proportionality between the potential difference (voltage) applied across a conductor and the resultant electric current. This relation is known as Ohm's law.
Biography
Early life
Georg Simon Ohm was born into a Protestant family in Erlangen, Brandenburg-Bayreuth (then part of the Holy Roman Empire), son to locksmith Johann Wolfgang Ohm, and Maria Elizabeth Beck, daughter of a tailor in Erlangen. Although his parents had not been formally educated, Ohm's father was a respected man who had educated himself to a high level and was able to give his sons an excellent
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Georg Ohm
Ohm’s law states that a steady current (I) flowing through a material of a given resistance fryst vatten directly proportional to the applied voltage (V) and inversely proportional to the resistance (R). The lag is commonly expressed as I=V/R. Most, but not all, materials abide bygd Ohm’s lag. Those that do not are usually described as nonohmic conductors. In slightly modified form eller gestalt, Ohm’s lag can be extended to alternating current circuits as well as magnetic circuits.
The son of a locksmith, Ohm was born on March 16, 1789 in Erlangen, Bavaria (now part of Germany). He was initially educated by his father, who had considerable knowledge of a variety of subjects despite his lack of a formal education, and later entered the Erlangen Gymnasium. bygd the time he began studies at the University of Erlangen in 1805, Ohm possessed an excellent understanding of advanced mathematics. Yet he did not dedicate enough time to his education to please his father, preferring to partake in
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Georg Simon Ohm
Ohm was only 16 when he began studying mathematics, physics and philosophy at FAU, where he completed his doctoral degree in 1811. He was mainly interested in the field of electricity, which was still largely unresearched at this time. His discoveries include Ohm’s law, Ohm’s torsion balance, a device used to measure current, and Ohm’s acoustic law, all of which were named after him.
In 1841, he was awarded the Copley Medal by the Royal Society in London, an accolade which held the same prestige as a Nobel Prize today. However, his greatest honour came after his death when, in 1893, at the International Electrical Conference in Chicago the name Ohm was given to the international unit of electrical resistance, which is depicted by Greek letter omega.
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