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Obsolete name for an ammeter; now an instrument for measuring fluid viscosity. rheostat Obsolete name for a two terminal variable resistor, usually with a rotating shaft to allow manual or motor driven adjustment. right-hand rule A mnemonic device for remembering the definitions of the directions of current and magnetic field in generators. ripple
There are notable non-electrical analog devices, such as some clocks (sundials, water clocks), the astrolabe, slide rules, the governor of a steam engine, the planimeter (a simple device that measures the surface area of a closed shape), Kelvin's mechanical tide predictor, acoustic rangefinders, servomechanisms (e.g. the thermostat), a simple mercury thermometer, a weighing scale, and the ...
Device that changes digital signals to analog, or reconstructs information (data) by performing the inverse (reverse) functions of an encode process. [1] Definition The aggregate of fine details available on-screen. The higher the definition of an image, the greater the number of details [that can be discerned by the human eye or displayed].
Analog (program), a computer program that analyzes log files from web servers; Analogical models, a method of representing a phenomenon of the world by another, more understandable or analyzable system; Functional analog (chemistry), a compound with similar properties; Structural analog, a compound with an altered chemical structure
This glossary of physics is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to physics, its sub-disciplines, and related fields, including mechanics, materials science, nuclear physics, particle physics, and thermodynamics.
Analog photography, also known as film photography, is a term usually applied to photography that uses chemical processes to capture an image, typically on paper, film or a hard plate. These processes were the only methods available to photographers for more than a century prior to the invention of digital photography , which uses electronic ...
Analogue electronics (American English: analog electronics) are electronic systems with a continuously variable signal, in contrast to digital electronics where signals usually take only two levels. The term analogue describes the proportional relationship between a signal and a voltage or current that represents the signal.
A new definition, in terms of the elementary charge, will take effect on 20 May 2019. [141] The new definition defines the elementary charge (the charge of the proton) as exactly 1.602 176 634 × 10 −19 coulombs. This would implicitly define the coulomb as 1 ⁄ 0.160 217 6634 × 10 18 elementary charges. Coulomb's law