lenz law
1Lenz's law — (pronEng|ˈlɛntsɨz ˌlɔː) gives the direction of the induced electromotive force (emf) and current resulting from electromagnetic induction. The law provides a physical interpretation of the choice of sign in Faraday s law of induction, indicating… …
2Lenz — may refer to: * Lenz (fragment), literary fragment by Georg Büchner * Lantsch/Lenz, the German name of the place in Grisons, Switzerland * Lenz military base, military base in Lenasia, Gauteng * Lents (crater)urnameLenz is a German surname, and… …
3Lenz's law — ▪ physics in electromagnetism, statement that an induced electric current flows in a direction such that the current opposes the change that induced it. This law was deduced in 1834 by the Russian physicist Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz… …
4Lenz , Heinrich Friedrich Emil — (1804–1865) Russian physicist While a student at the university in his native city of Dorpat (now Tartu in Estonia), Lenz accompanied a voyage around the world as a geophysicist. Soon after his return he started teaching at the University of St.… …
5Lenz’s law — Lenco taisyklė statusas T sritis fizika atitikmenys: angl. Lenz’s law; Lenz’s rule vok. Lenzsche Regel, f; Lenzsches Gesetz, n rus. закон Ленца, m; правило Ленца, n pranc. loi de Lenz, f …
6Lenz’s rule — Lenco taisyklė statusas T sritis fizika atitikmenys: angl. Lenz’s law; Lenz’s rule vok. Lenzsche Regel, f; Lenzsches Gesetz, n rus. закон Ленца, m; правило Ленца, n pranc. loi de Lenz, f …
7Lenz's law — /ˈlɛnzəz lɔ/ (say lenzuhz law) noun the law which states that when an electric circuit and a magnetic field move relative to each other, the current induced in the circuit will have a magnetic field opposing the motion. {named after H Lenz,… …
8lenz's law — ˈlen(t)sə̇z , nzə̇z noun Usage: usually capitalized 1st L Etymology: after H. F. E. Lenz died 1865 German physicist, its formulator : a law in physics: the electromotive force due to electromagnetic induction tends to produce a current in such… …
9Lenz's law — noun a law of electromagnetic induction which states that an electromotive force, induced in a conductor, is always in such a direction that the current it would produce would oppose the change which caused it; it is a form of the law of… …
10Heinrich Lenz — Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz (February 12, 1804 February 10, 1865) was a Baltic German physicist most famous for formulating Lenz s law in 1833. Lenz was born in Dorpat (Tartu), Livonia, in what is now Estonia. After completing his secondary… …
