II. Method of measuring the resistance of a conductor or of a battery, or of a telegraph-line influenced by unknown earth-currents, from a single deflection of a galvanometer of unknown resistance

Abstract

The resistance of each part of a circuit, such as that shown in fig. 1, being known, the influence exercised by the shunt A B, as well as the total resistance of the whole between x and y , can be easily ascertained by simple and well-known formulæ.