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Ampere or amp (symbol A) is a unit of current named after André-Marie Ampère
Ampere or Ampère may also refer to:
People
- André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836), physicist, mathematician and namesake of the term ampere
- Ampère Prize, a French scientific prize awarded annually in honor of André-Marie
- Jean-Jacques Ampère (1800–64), French philologist
Places
- Ampére, a town in Paraná state, Brasil
- Ampère, former name for Aïn Azel, Algeria
- Collège-lycée Ampère, a school located in Lyon, France
- Place Ampère, a square in Lyon, France
Science and technology
- Ampere hour (A⋅h), a unit of electric charge
- Ampere balance, an electromechanical apparatus for precise measurement of the ampere
- Ampere-turn (At), unit of magnetomotive force (MMF)
- Ampère's circuital law, a rule relating the current in a conductor to the magnetic field around it
- Ampère's force law, the force of attraction or repulsion between two current-carrying wires
- Amperes per meter (A/m), unit for measuring magnetic fields
- Monge–Ampère equation, a type of nonlinear second order partial differential equation
Transportation
- Ampère (car), a French automobile, built 1906–9
- Ampere station, former rail station in East Orange, New Jersey, US
- Opel Ampera, an plug-in hybrid automobile produced by General Motors
- USS Ampere, a patrol craft of the United States Navy
Other uses
- Ampere (band), an American punk band known for short and extremely loud performances
See also
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