Bosanquet's law

Bosanquet's law

[′bō·zən‚kets ‚lȯ]

(electromagnetism)

The statement that, in analogy to Ohm's law for the resistance of an electric circuit, in a magnetic circuit the ratio of the magnetomotive force to the magnetic flux is a constant known as the reluctance.

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