Conductivity vs Impedance - What's the difference?
conductivity | impedance |
The ability of a material to conduct electricity, heat, fluid or sound
(physics) The reciprocal of resistivity
(label) A measure of the opposition to the flow of an alternating current in a circuit; the aggregation of its resistance, and inductive and capacitive reactances; the ratio of voltage to current treated as complex quantities.
(label) A quantity analogous to electrical impedance in some other energy domain
# a measure of opposition to motion of something subjected to a force; the ratio of force to velocity treated as complex quantities.
# the ratio of sound pressure to volume flow rate treated as complex quantities.
a measure of the opposition caused by differences between two paradigms, especially between object-oriented development and relational databases
* 1997 , Bhavani M. Thuraisingham, Data Management Systems: Evolution and Interoperation (ISBN 0849394937), CRC Press, page 33:
* 2002 , Jim Melton, Advanced SQL:1999: Understanding Object-Relational and Other Advanced Features (ISBN 1558606777), Morgan Kaufmann, page 353:
* 2004 , Scott W. Ambler, The Object Primer: Agile Model-Driven Development with UML 2.0 (ISBN 1397805218), Cambridge University Press, page 442:
In physics terms the difference between conductivity and impedance
is that conductivity is the reciprocal of resistivity while impedance is a quantity analogous to electrical impedance in some other energy domain.As nouns the difference between conductivity and impedance
is that conductivity is the ability of a material to conduct electricity, heat, fluid or sound while impedance is a measure of the opposition to the flow of an alternating current in a circuit; the aggregation of its resistance, and inductive and capacitive reactances; the ratio of voltage to current treated as complex quantities.conductivity
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(wikipedia conductivity)Derived terms
* hydraulic conductivitySee also
* permeabilityimpedance
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- Some argue that having impedance mismatch is difficult for programming intensive applications.
- But the impedance mismatch between SQL and Java was no better than between SQL and other languages.
- Why does a technological impedance mismatch exist?
