Fundamentals of Electric Circuits
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ISBN: 9780078028229
Author: Charles K Alexander, Matthew Sadiku
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 1, Problem 9RQ
Which of these is not an electrical quantity?
- (a) charge
- (b) time
- (c) voltage
- (d) current
- (e) power
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Fundamentals of Electric Circuits
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