Wheatstone Bridge - Modifications of The Fundamental Bridge

Modifications of The Fundamental Bridge

The Wheatstone bridge is the fundamental bridge, but there are other modifications that can be made to measure various kinds of resistances when the fundamental Wheatstone bridge is not suitable. Some of the modifications are:

  • Carey Foster bridge, for measuring small resistances
  • Kelvin Varley Slide
  • Kelvin bridge
  • Maxwell bridge

Read more about this topic:  Wheatstone Bridge

Famous quotes containing the words modifications of the, modifications of, fundamental and/or bridge:

    God is the efficient cause not only of the existence of things, but also of their essence.
    Corr. Individual things are nothing but modifications of the attributes of God, or modes by which the attributes of God are expressed in a fixed and definite manner.
    Baruch (Benedict)

    God is the efficient cause not only of the existence of things, but also of their essence.
    Corr. Individual things are nothing but modifications of the attributes of God, or modes by which the attributes of God are expressed in a fixed and definite manner.
    Baruch (Benedict)

    The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome—not by favor of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.
    Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    Like a bridge over troubled water
    I will lay me down.
    Paul Simon (b. 1949)