Ampère Explained

The ampere or amp (symbol A) is the base unit of electric current in the International System of Units.

Ampere or Ampère may also refer to:

People

• André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836), physicist, mathematician and namesake of the ampere unit
• Jean-Jacques Ampère (1800–1864), French philologist

Places

• Ampére, a town in Paraná state, Brasil
• Aïn Azel, a commune in Algeria, former name Ampère
• Collège-lycée Ampère, a school in Lyon, France
• Place Ampère, a square in Lyon, France
• Ampère Seamount, a Seamount in the Atlantic Ocean 600km from Gibraltar

Transportation

• Ampere (company), electric vehicle subsidiary of Renault
• Ampère (car), a French automobile, built 1906–1909
• Ampere station, a former rail station in East Orange, New Jersey, US
• , a patrol craft of the US Navy
• , the world's first battery electric ferry

Other uses

• Ampere (microarchitecture), a microarchitecture used in Nvidia GPUs
• Ampère Prize, a French scientific prize awarded annually in honor of André-Marie Ampère
• Ampere (band), an American punk band known for short and extremely loud performances
• Ampere Computing, an American semiconductor company
• Ampere WS-1, a short-lived Japanese laptop based on the Motorola 68000

See also

• Ampere balance, an electromechanical apparatus for precise measurement of the ampere
• 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
• Monge–Ampère equation, a type of nonlinear second order partial differential equation
• AMPERS, the Association of Minnesota Public Educational Radio Stations
  • • • Ampera (disambiguation)
• Amped (disambiguation)
• AMPS (disambiguation)
• Amp (disambiguation)