Henry H
About the Henry
A circuit has an inductance of one henry when a current changing at one ampere per second induces one volt. It is named after the American physicist Joseph Henry, who discovered self-inductance independently of Faraday.
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Weber
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G10⁻⁴ T (exact)
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