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Several mathematical discoveries such as Ohm's law helped advance the field of the physics electricity into what we know today. Knowledge of the behavior of electricity is significant to computers because electricity changed computers into mechanical computing machines into electric computers. Electric computers are a major advance from their mechanical predecessors because of their size, speed, computing ability, and practicality. Without this crucial discovery, the science behind electrical computers would be absent, and electrical computers would be impossible. | Several mathematical discoveries such as Ohm's law helped advance the field of the physics electricity into what we know today. Knowledge of the behavior of electricity is significant to computers because electricity changed computers into mechanical computing machines into electric computers. Electric computers are a major advance from their mechanical predecessors because of their size, speed, computing ability, and practicality. Without this crucial discovery, the science behind electrical computers would be absent, and electrical computers would be impossible. | ||
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Revision as of 09:08, 1 September 2009
In 1827, George Simon Ohm introduced Ohm's Law, a mathematical description of the physics of electricity.
Contents
Overview
Ohm's law describes the relationship between current, voltage, and resistance through this mathematical equation:
Significance
Several mathematical discoveries such as Ohm's law helped advance the field of the physics electricity into what we know today. Knowledge of the behavior of electricity is significant to computers because electricity changed computers into mechanical computing machines into electric computers. Electric computers are a major advance from their mechanical predecessors because of their size, speed, computing ability, and practicality. Without this crucial discovery, the science behind electrical computers would be absent, and electrical computers would be impossible.
