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PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS

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Conductivity<br />

Often more convenient to consider a material as<br />

conducting electrical current rather than resisting its<br />

flow<br />

Conductivity of a material is simply the reciprocal of<br />

resistivity:<br />

Electrical conductivity =<br />

1<br />

r<br />

where conductivity has units of (-m) -1 ((-in) -1 )<br />

©2002 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. M. P. Groover, “Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing 2/e”

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