• A vector measuring current meter (VMCM) is an instrument used for obtaining measurements of horizontal velocity in the upper ocean, which exploits two...
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    sensitive current meters. Ekman himself developed a current meter to observe the spiral that bears his name, but was not successful. The Vector Measuring Current...
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    integral AC current clamp is known as a clamp meter, clamp-on ammeter, tong tester, or colloquially as an amp clamp. A clamp meter measures the vector sum of...
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    A rotor current meter (RCM) is a mechanical current meter, an oceanographic device deployed within an oceanographic mooring measuring the flow within...
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    cycling power meter is a device on a bicycle that measures the power output of the rider. Most cycling power meters use strain gauges to measure torque applied...
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    Voltmeter (redirect from Voltage meter)
    Multimeter Ohmmeter Potentiometer (measuring instrument) Solenoid voltmeter Voltage divider Measurement category Vector voltmeter Markoff, John (5 Sep 2014)...
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    meter, SWR meter, ISWR meter (current "I" SWR), or VSWR meter (voltage SWR) measures the standing wave ratio (SWR) in a transmission line. The meter indirectly...
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    physics, and engineering, a Euclidean vector or simply a vector (sometimes called a geometric vector or spatial vector) is a geometric object that has magnitude...
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    described mathematically by a function assigning a vector to each point of space, called a vector field (more precisely, a pseudovector field). In electromagnetics...
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    A galvanometer is an electromechanical measuring instrument for electric current. Early galvanometers were uncalibrated, but improved versions, called...
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  • and their notations. Note that bold text indicates that the quantity is a vector. List of letters used in mathematics and science Glossary of mathematical...
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  • times the volume is filled to measure flow. Fluid dynamic (vortex shedding) Anemometer Ultrasonic flow meter Mass flow meter (Coriolis force). Flow measurement...
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    fibre optic cable network (Vector Fibre), deploys electricity and gas meters (Vector Metering, now rebranded as BlueCurrent), manages solar infrastructure...
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    magnetic interaction is described in terms of a vector field, where each point in space is associated with a vector that determines what force a moving charge...
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    In classical electromagnetism, magnetization is the vector field that expresses the density of permanent or induced magnetic dipole moments in a magnetic...
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    used to describe the current vector in marine navigation, analogous to wind in air navigation. E6B flight computer. Drift meter Air Navigation. Department...
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  • specifications include the ability to apply voltage bias and current bias while measuring, and the measurement speed. Impedance analyzers typically offer...
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    information could be obtained by measuring the load's impedance with an impedance analyzer (or "impedance bridge"), the SWR meter is simpler and more robust...
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  • the velocity vector of the SAR object relative to the downwind direction at the search object as it moves relative to the surface current as measured between...
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    electric field vector with units of volts per meter (analogous to V of Ohm's law which has units of volts), J is the current density vector with units of...
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    electric field is uniform, the electric flux passing through a surface of vector area A is Φ E = E ⋅ A = E A cos ⁡ θ , {\displaystyle \Phi _{\text{E}}=\mathbf...
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    quotient of electric dipole moment (a vector quantity, expressed as coulombs*meters (C*m) in SI units) to volume (meters cubed). Polarization density is denoted...
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    system can measure only the component of surface current travelling toward or away from the radar, so to determine the total surface current vectors, it is...
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    produces a voltage proportional to one axial component of the magnetic field vector B using the Hall effect (named for physicist Edwin Hall). Hall sensors are...
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  • An acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP) is a hydroacoustic current meter similar to a sonar, used to measure water current velocities over a depth...
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  • square meters per cubic meter, is amperes per meter. That is why ampere per meter is the correct unit of magnetism, even though these small current loops...
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    and force is a vector (i.e. having both magnitude and direction), so it follows that an electric field may be described by a vector field.: 469–70  The...
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  • Power factor (redirect from Cos Phi Meter)
    the current waveform lags or leads the voltage waveform. One can relate the various components of AC power by using the power triangle in vector space...
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  • Flux (redirect from Flux of a vector field)
    measuring over. q is a function of a point, an area, and a direction (given by a unit vector n ^ {\displaystyle \mathbf {\hat {n}} } ), and measures the...
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    Magnetometer (redirect from Gauss meter)
    used for those measuring greater than 1 mT. There are two basic types of magnetometer measurement. Vector magnetometers measure the vector components of...
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