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Electrical measurements

Index Electrical measurements

Electrical measurements are the methods, devices and calculations used to measure electrical quantities. [1]

34 relations: Admittance, Capacitance, Electric charge, Electric current, Electric field, Electric power, Electrical impedance, Electrical reactance, Electrical resistance and conductance, Electricity meter, Electrometer, Electron, Euclidean vector, Frequency, Gain (electronics), Hall effect sensor, Inductance, List of sensors, Magnetic field, Magnetic flux, Metrology, Network analyzer (electrical), Phase noise, Power factor, Power gain, Propagation delay, S-matrix, Spectral density, Spectrum analyzer, Speed of light, Susceptance, Transconductance, Voltage, Voltmeter.

Admittance

In electrical engineering, admittance is a measure of how easily a circuit or device will allow a current to flow.

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Capacitance

Capacitance is the ratio of the change in an electric charge in a system to the corresponding change in its electric potential.

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Electric charge

Electric charge is the physical property of matter that causes it to experience a force when placed in an electromagnetic field.

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Electric current

An electric current is a flow of electric charge.

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Electric field

An electric field is a vector field surrounding an electric charge that exerts force on other charges, attracting or repelling them.

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Electric power

Electric power is the rate, per unit time, at which electrical energy is transferred by an electric circuit.

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Electrical impedance

Electrical impedance is the measure of the opposition that a circuit presents to a current when a voltage is applied.

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Electrical reactance

In electrical and electronic systems, reactance is the opposition of a circuit element to a change in current or voltage, due to that element's inductance or capacitance.

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Electrical resistance and conductance

The electrical resistance of an electrical conductor is a measure of the difficulty to pass an electric current through that conductor.

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Electricity meter

analog electricity meter. Electricity meter with transparent plastic case (Israel) North American domestic electronic electricity meter An electricity meter, electric meter, electrical meter, or energy meter is a device that measures the amount of electric energy consumed by a residence, a business, or an electrically powered device.

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Electrometer

An electrometer is an electrical instrument for measuring electric charge or electrical potential difference.

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Electron

The electron is a subatomic particle, symbol or, whose electric charge is negative one elementary charge.

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Euclidean vector

In mathematics, physics, and engineering, a Euclidean vector (sometimes called a geometric or spatial vector, or—as here—simply a vector) is a geometric object that has magnitude (or length) and direction.

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Frequency

Frequency is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit of time.

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Gain (electronics)

In electronics, gain is a measure of the ability of a two-port circuit (often an amplifier) to increase the power or amplitude of a signal from the input to the output port by adding energy converted from some power supply to the signal.

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Hall effect sensor

A Hall effect sensor is a transducer that varies its output voltage in response to a magnetic field.

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Inductance

In electromagnetism and electronics, inductance is the property of an electrical conductor by which a change in electric current through it induces an electromotive force (voltage) in the conductor.

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List of sensors

This is a list of sensors sorted by sensor type.

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Magnetic field

A magnetic field is a vector field that describes the magnetic influence of electrical currents and magnetized materials.

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Magnetic flux

In physics, specifically electromagnetism, the magnetic flux (often denoted or) through a surface is the surface integral of the normal component of the magnetic field B passing through that surface.

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Metrology

Metrology is the science of measurement.

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Network analyzer (electrical)

A network analyzer is an instrument that measures the network parameters of electrical networks.

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Phase noise

In signal processing, phase noise is the frequency domain representation of rapid, short-term, random fluctuations in the phase of a waveform, caused by time domain instabilities ("jitter").

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Power factor

In electrical engineering, the power factor of an AC electrical power system is defined as the ratio of the real power flowing to the load to the apparent power in the circuit, and is a dimensionless number in the closed interval of −1 to 1.

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Power gain

The power gain of an electrical network is the ratio of an output power to an input power.

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Propagation delay

Propagation delay is a technical term that can have a different meaning depending on the context.

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S-matrix

In physics, the S-matrix or scattering matrix relates the initial state and the final state of a physical system undergoing a scattering process.

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Spectral density

The power spectrum S_(f) of a time series x(t) describes the distribution of power into frequency components composing that signal.

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Spectrum analyzer

A spectrum analyzer measures the magnitude of an input signal versus frequency within the full frequency range of the instrument.

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Speed of light

The speed of light in vacuum, commonly denoted, is a universal physical constant important in many areas of physics.

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Susceptance

In electrical engineering, susceptance (B) is the imaginary part of admittance, where the real part is conductance.

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Transconductance

Transconductance (for transfer conductance), also infrequently called mutual conductance, is the electrical characteristic relating the current through the output of a device to the voltage across the input of a device.

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Voltage

Voltage, electric potential difference, electric pressure or electric tension (formally denoted or, but more often simply as V or U, for instance in the context of Ohm's or Kirchhoff's circuit laws) is the difference in electric potential between two points.

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Voltmeter

A voltmeter is an instrument used for measuring electrical potential difference between two points in an electric circuit.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_measurements

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