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Electric current intensity

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Tema: Electrical energy

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Competencia Matemática, en ciencia, tecnología e ingeniería

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España > Física y Química > 3º ESO > La energía

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Together with Charlotte Scott (a British mathematician), the first wrangler (student to pass her third year of mathematics at Cambridge University with distinction) at Girton (Britain's first residential college for women's university education). She founded a mathematics club and was the first woman to join the New York Mathematical Society.

Marie Sklodowska-Curie (1867-1934), Nobel laureate in physics in 1903, knew Hertha Ayrton, who was invited by the Societé de Physique to present the article La formation des rides de sable et les mouvements internes de l'eau oscillant in Paris. Hertha Ayrton asked Marie Curie to sign the international petition to free the British suffragettes in 1912. Her inventions were partly financed by Lady Goldsmid and the feminist pedagogue Barbara Leigh-Smith Bodichon (1827-1891). She was a member of the Women's Social and Political Union or WSPU, founded by Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928).

Laura Bassi (1711-1778) and Maria Angela Ardinghelli (1728-1825) preceded her in studying electromagnetism and electrical phenomena. She was a contemporary of Beulah Louise Henry (1887-1973), known as 'Mrs Edison' for her more than 100 inventions and 49 patents, and Edith Clarke (1883-1959), an engineer specialising in the analysis of electrical systems. Later scientists and inventors in the field include Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000) and Esther M. Conwell (1922-2014).

Barbara Ayrton, Hertha's daughter, studied chemistry and physiology at London College and joined the WSPU in 1906. She was a leading feminist activist and a member of parliament for the Labour Party.

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Understanding the concept of electric current as a flow of charges in movement, electrons through a conductor, and interpreting the meaning of current intensity. 

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