electromotive force

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The electromotive force becomes the right-hand side of Equation 4.24.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

Applying Kirchhoff’s Loop Rule to this circuit, we let E denote the electromotive force supplied by the voltage generator.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

Kirchhoff’s Loop Rule states that the sum of the voltage drops across resistors, inductors, and capacitors is equal to the total electromotive force in a closed circuit.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

We thus use the name electromotive force, abbreviated emf.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

By properly summing up the whole heat-equivalents a net total was obtained which, according to Thomson, was the energy consumed in the passage of unit current, and was therefore the electromotive force.

From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew