ballistic galvanometer

American

noun

Electricity.

a galvanometer used to measure the quantity of electricity in a current of short duration.

ballistic galvanometer British

noun

physics a type of galvanometer for measuring surges of current. After deflection the instrument returns slowly to its original reading

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Etymology

Origin of ballistic galvanometer

First recorded in 1875–80

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Various instruments called permeameters and hysteresis meters have been designed for this purpose, but much of the work has been done by means of a ballistic galvanometer and test ring as above described.

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Upon giving the armature an angular motion limited by two stops, there develops a certain quantity of electricity that may be measured by causing it to traverse an appropriate ballistic galvanometer.

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The ends of this coil were carried to a distant part of the laboratory, and connected to a sensitive ballistic galvanometer.

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