What is electric resistance?

Some articles on electric resistance:

Air Conditioning - Construction - Types - Heat Pumps
... heat is significantly more energy efficient than electric resistance heating ... A heat pump system will therefore have a form of electric resistance heating in the indoor air path that is activated only in this mode in order to compensate for ... a heat pump because some units use only electric resistance heat when heating is desired ...
Measuring Instrument - Electricity, Electronics and Electrical Engineering - Electric Resistance, Electrical Conductance (and Electrical Conductivity)
... Ohmmeter Time-domain reflectometer characterizes and locates faults in metallic cables by runtime measurements of electric signals ... Wheatstone bridge ...

Famous quotes containing the words resistance and/or electric:

    “The resistance we make to our passions is due to their weakness, not our strength.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    “That’s the down-town frieze,
    Principally the church steeple,
    A black line beside a white line;
    And the stack of the electric plant,
    A black line drawn on flat air.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)