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What do you understand by the term electric conductance? State its practical unit.


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Step 1: Electric Conductance:

  1. Conductance (also known as electrical conductance) is defined as the ability of a substance to conduct electricity.
  2. Conductance is the measure of how fluently electrical current can pass through a material.
  3. Conductance is the inverse of electrical resistance, represented as 1R where R is the resistance.

Step 2: The practical unit of electric conductance:

  1. Conductance is expressed as G and the measuring unit is ""(mho).
  2. Latterly after a some time, experimenters replaced the unit with “Siemens” which was denoted by the letter S.
  3. In electronics, conductance is a measure of the current flows through a circuit device for a given applied voltage.

Thus, Conductance (also known as electrical conductance) is defined as the ability of a substance to conduct electricity. Conductance is expressed as G and the measuring practical unit is ""mho.


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