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Why is Ohm's law less of a law than Newton's laws?

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We know that Ohm's law is an experimental law that was discovered from many materials that have constant resistance.

The material that obeys ohms law has a constant resistance independent of the voltage which called the ohmic material.

There are many materials that do not obey Ohm's law which called the Nonohmic material.

The ohmic material under some high temperature will not obey Ohm's law as well.

From all the above, we can not say that Ohm's law is a general law.

But Newton's laws are general laws since we can apply them to any object under any circumstances.

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