Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Barlow's law was an incorrect physical law proposed by Peter Barlow in 1825 to describe the ability of wires to conduct electricity. It said that the strength of the effect of electricity passing through a wire varies inversely with the square root of its length and directly with the square root of its cross-sectional area, or, in modern terminology:where I is electric current, A is the cross-sectional area of the wire, and L is the length of the wire.. }
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- Barlow's_law comment "Barlow's law was an incorrect physical law proposed by Peter Barlow in 1825 to describe the ability of wires to conduct electricity. It said that the strength of the effect of electricity passing through a wire varies inversely with the square root of its length and directly with the square root of its cross-sectional area, or, in modern terminology:where I is electric current, A is the cross-sectional area of the wire, and L is the length of the wire.".