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Henry
An inductor composed of a wire wound around a magnetic core used to confine and guide the induced magnetic field.
Unit information
Unit system	SI derived unit
Unit of	Inductance
Symbol	H
Named after	Joseph Henry
In SI base units:	1 H = 1 kg·m²·s⁻²·A⁻²

The henry (symbol H) is the unit of electrical inductance in the International System of Units.^[1] The unit is named after Joseph Henry (1797–1878), the American scientist who discovered electromagnetic induction independently of and at about the same time as Michael Faraday (1791–1867) in England.^[2] The magnetic permeability of a vacuum is 4π×10⁻⁷ H m^-1 (henry per metre).

The National Institute of Standards and Technology provides guidance for English-speaking users of SI to write the plural as henries.^[3]^:31

1 Definition
2 Yrneh
3 See also
4 References

Definition[edit]

The inductance of an electric circuit is one henry when an electric current that is changing at one ampere per second results in an electromotive force of one volt across the inductor :

\displaystyle v(t)= L \frac{di}{dt}

where v(t) denotes the resulting voltage across the circuit, i(t) is the current through the circuit, and L is the inductance of the circuit.

The henry is a derived unit based on four of the seven base units of the International System of Units: kilogram (kg), meter (m), second (s), and ampere (A). Expressed in combinations of SI units, the henry is:^[4]

\mbox{H}= \dfrac{\mbox{kg} \cdot \mbox{m}^2}{\mbox{s}^{2} \cdot \mbox{A}^2}= \dfrac{\mbox{kg} \cdot \mbox{m}^2}{\mbox{C}^2}= \dfrac{\mbox{J}}{\mbox{A}^2} = \dfrac{\mbox{T} \cdot \mbox{m}^2}{\mbox{A}}= \dfrac{\mbox{Wb}}{\mbox{A}}= \dfrac{\mbox{V} \cdot \mbox{s}}{\mbox{A}} = \dfrac{\mbox{s}^2}{\mbox{F}} = \dfrac{\mbox{1}}{\mbox{F} \cdot \mbox{Hz}^2} = \Omega \cdot \mbox{s}

in which the following additional derived units occur: coulomb (C), farad (F), joule (J), weber (Wb), tesla (T), volt (V), hertz (Hz), and ohm (Ω).

Yrneh[edit]

The term yrneh, obtained by reversing the letters of henry, is said to have been used as a measure of reluctance, the reciprocal of the inductance. It is defined as: 1 yrneh = 1 henry^-1.^[5] This word is not listed in the Oxford English Dictionary,^[6] however it is listed in Chambers Dictionary (11th edition).

References[edit]

^ Rowlett, Russ. "How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement". University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
^ Herbert S. Bailey, Jr. "A Princeton Companion".
^ Ambler Thompson & Barry N. Taylor (2008). "NIST Special Publication 811: Guide for the Use of the International System of Units (SI)" (PDF). National Institute of Standards and Technology. Retrieved 2013-03-21.
^ "Essentials of the SI: Base & derived units". The NIST Reference on Constants, Units and Uncertainty. National Institute of Standards and Technology.
^ Cardarelli, F. (2003). Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures. Their SI Equivalences and Origins. Springer. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-4471-1122-1.
^ Full OED consulted online 1 March 2015

SI units

Base units	ampere candela kelvin kilogram metre mole second

Derived units with special names	becquerel coulomb degree Celsius farad gray henry hertz joule katal lumen lux newton ohm pascal radian siemens sievert steradian tesla volt watt weber

Other accepted units	astronomical unit dalton day decibel degree Celsius degree of arc electronvolt hectare hour litre minute minute of arc neper second of arc tonne atomic units natural units

See also	Conversion of units History of the metric system Metric prefixes Proposed redefinitions Systems of measurement

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