What is the ampere a measure of?

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What is the ampere a measure of?

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The Ampere is the unit RATE of flow of electric charge, defined as 1 Coulomb of charge per second. Nice to see the units of both charge and it's flow rate named in honor of ground-breaking French physicists.

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A unit of electric current. equal to the flow of one coulomb per second.

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