Heinrich Rudolph Hertz laid the foundation for the future development of radio, telephone and telegraph. The SI unit of ______ was named as 'hertz' in his honour.
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Correct answer: C
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The correct answer is option 3 i.e. frequency.
| SI unit of Frequency | The SI unit hertz (Hz) was established in his honour by the International Electrotechnical Commission in 1930 for frequency, an expression of the number of times that a repeated event occurs per second. |
| Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was a German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves predicted by James Clerk Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism. | |
| The unit of frequency, cycle per second, was named the "hertz" in his honour. |