inductance
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- n an electrical phenomenon whereby an electromotive force (EMF) is generated in a closed circuit by a change in the flow of current
- n an electrical device (typically a conducting coil) that introduces inductance into a circuit
- Michael Idvorsky Pupin, Serb immigrant boy, now professor of electromechanics, Columbia University; inventor of electrical "tuning," the resonator, inductance coil, etc.
- He would not divulge details, but indicated that he had mathematically discovered "a simple new combination of capacity and inductance that functions through properties of the .
- Because of the double passage, the inductance was as low as Davis had hoped.