Hall Effect Definition

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noun
Generation of an electric potential perpendicular to both an electric current flowing along a conducting material and an external magnetic field applied at right angles to the current upon application of the magnetic field.
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Other Word Forms of Hall Effect

Noun

Singular:
Hall effect
Plural:
hall-effects

Origin of Hall Effect

  • After Edwin Herbert Hall (1855–1938), American physicist

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Edwin Herbert Hall, American physicist.

    From Wiktionary

Hall Effect Sentence Examples

  • Several experimenters have endeavoured to find a Hall effect in liquids, but such results as have been hitherto obtained are by no means free from doubt.

  • The large Hall effect in bismuth was discovered by Righi, Journ.

  • Speed sensors can be of the Hall Effect type, magnetic pickup or ferrous detection.

  • Moreau (C. R., 1900, 130, pp. 122, 412, 562) that if K is the coefficient of the Hall effect (I) and K' the analogous coefficient of the Nernst effect (i.) (which is constant for small values of H), then K' = Ka/p, v being the coefficient of the Thomson effect for the metal and p its specific resistance.

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