Ampere Ampere The ampere (; symbol: A), often shortened to "amp", is the base unit of electric current in the International System of Units (SI). It is named after André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836), French mathematician and physicist, considered the father of electrodynamics. The International System of Units defines the ampere in terms of other base units by measuring the electromagnetic force between electrical conductors carrying electric current. The earlier CGS measurement system had two different definitions of current, one essentially the same as the SI's and the other using electric charge as the base unit, with the unit of charge defined by
Atomic mass unit names for the same unit of measure. As with other unit names such as watt and newton, "dalton" is not capitalized in English, but its symbol, Da, is capitalized. With the introduction of the name "dalton", there has been a gradual change towards using that name in preference to the name, "unified atomic mass unit": The former definition of the mole, an SI base unit, was accepted by the CGPM in 1971 as: However, the first part of this definition was changed in 2018 to: One consequence of this change is that the current defined relationship between the mass of