单词 | electric inertia |
释义 | > as lemmaselectric inertia b. electric inertia, a term applied to the resistance offered by a circuit to sudden changes of current, due to self- or mutual induction, or both. magnetic inertia, that property of a magnetic substance which prevents its being instantaneously magnetized or demagnetized. ΚΠ 1886 O. Heaviside Electr. Papers II. 60 The inertia, in the electro-magnetic case, is that of the magnetic field, not of the electricity. 1892 S. P. Thompson Dynamo-electr. Machinery (ed. 4) 83 We know that every electric current possesses a property sometimes called ‘electric inertia’, sometimes called ‘self-induction’, by virtue of which it tends to go on, and that it is in the current's own magnetic field that this inertia of self-induction resides. < as lemmas |
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