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Thread #54135   Message #838895
Posted By: Nigel Parsons
02-Dec-02 - 11:51 AM
Thread Name: BS: Help; quiz questions
Subject: RE: BS: Help; quiz questions
While I was typing JohninKansas added 10a,In electricity, potential difference divided by current gives resistance, the standard units for these three quantities are the volt (named after Alessandro Volta, Italian), the ampere (André-Marie Ampere, French) and the ohm (Georg Ohm, German). A temperature of 273 Kelvin (Lord Kelvin, who moved from Ulster to Scotland) is equal to 32~ Fahrenheit (Gabriel Fahrenheit, born in Poland but Dutch by adoption). It is also equal to 0 Celsius (Anders Celsius) and 0 Réaumur (René de Réaumur), so we might have added 'no Swedes or Frenchmen' to the question.