The four-terminal conductor and the Thomson bridge (1912)
Wenner, Frank · National Bureau of Standards · leaf 7
g at 4, 2 may be eitherat a higher or at a lower potential than 3. The resistance 2-3/1-4may therefor be either positive or negative. As the notion of signis foreign to our usual conception of resistance, we may, if we wish,consider it as associated with the drop in potential and with thedirection… … Fig. 1 (1) Electrician, 66, p. 1002; 1911. 562 Bulletin of the Bureau of Standards [Vol. 8, No. 3 Therefore, instead of 24 different values there can not be morethan 6. We shall see later that there are other relations betweenthese six values, so that only two are really independent. Obviously, if…
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