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It is generally felt that considerable uncertainty still attaches to the real value of the ohm, or British Association unit of resistance. The ohm was constructed to represent 109c.g.s. absolute units, but according to Kohlrausch it is nearly 2 per cent too great, and according to Rowland nearly 1 per cent, too small. On the other hand, H. Weber has obtained by more than one method results very nearly in harmony with those of the British Association Committee. Influenced partly by the fact that the original apparatus (though a good deal out of repair) and the standard coils themselves were in the Cavendish Laboratory, I determined last June to repeat the measurement by the method of the Committee, which has been employed by no subsequent experimenter, and sought permission from the Council of the British Association to make the necessary alterations in the apparatus. In this way I hoped not merely to obtain an independent result, but also to form an opinion upon the importance of certain criticisms which have been passed upon the work of the Committee.
The method, it will be remembered, consists in causing a coil of insulated wire, forming a closed circuit, to revolve about a vertical axis, and in observing the deflection from the magnetic meridian of a magnet suspended at its centre, the deflection being due to the currents developed in the coil under the influence of the earth's magnetism.
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