The watt-balance operation: Magnetic force and induced electric potential on a conductor in a magnetic field

Metrologia

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 164-169

  Sasso, C P ^a   Massa, E ^a   Mana, G ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI RICERCA METROLOGICA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; CONDUCTION ELECTRONS; INDUCED ELECTRIC POTENTIALS; MACROSCOPIC EQUATION; MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL; MICROSCOPIC POINTS; NON-UNIFORM DENSITY; PLANCK CONSTANTS;

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL;

MAGNETIC FIELDS;

EID: 84875917441     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/50/2/164     Document Type: Article

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