Chapter 21, Problem 104A

To determine

To discuses: the life and work of the scientist for whom such units were given.

Explanation of Solution

Introduction:

Some of the units are termed with the name of the scientist for the concept of electricity. Few examples of units which are in the name of the scientist is farad, coulomb, ohm, volt and so on.

Michael faraday is the scientist who worked on understanding the amount of energy stored in the capacitor and thus capacitance is measured in Farad.

Charles Augustine de coulomb is an engineer and physicist who derived the concept of electricity force, charge and the constant is derived with his name as Coulombs constant.

George Ohm a school teacher who shows interest in developing electrochemical cell and the resistance units in a current flow circuit is derived with his name as Ohms.

Alessandro Volta is an Italian physicist who worked on electricity battery and the potential difference units is name with Volt.