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Why can the Ampere not be defined as the flow of $n$ Coulomb in $n$ seconds?
Mathematically , both are Equivalent. Practically , we might have Difficulties.
There at least 3 Issues or flaws with your way.
(1) When we say "n" , we are leaving it unknown.
When I report ...
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Why can the Ampere not be defined as the flow of $n$ Coulomb in $n$ seconds?
That’s how it is defined, using the 1’s rather than the n’s.
You’re not really missing anything about the math/physics of the situation. Yes your definition would indeed give the same result. It’s ...
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Dimensional Analysis in Electromagnetism (SI vs Gaussian-cgs)
Here's the conversion. I will write Gaussian quantities as
$$\hat{φ}, 𝐚, 𝐛, 𝐞, 𝐝, 𝐡, 𝐣, \hat{ρ}, q, \hat{ε}, \hat{μ}$$
and the corresponding SI quantities as
$$φ, 𝐀, 𝐁, 𝐄, 𝐃, 𝐇, 𝐉, ρ, e, ε,...
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