A Conversation for Three Basics of Electronics
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Started conversation Nov 9, 2000
A great rock band. 
Also, something which needs to be mentioned, as these are all laws of DC currents. Reactance gets a hell of a lot more complicated than resistance!
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Man of Legend Posted Nov 10, 2000
i completely agree i will probably mention it when explaining resistance, capacitance and inductance.
remember CIVIL
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Nov 10, 2000
What I was really hinting at is that it should mention "DC" somewhere in the entry... 
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Man of Legend Posted Nov 10, 2000
well that's the great thing about first princples, so long as you know to use reactance instaed of resistance then they are just as valid in ac as they are in dc. i've done enough 3 phase supply problems to know this.
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Nov 16, 2000
Peet, everything Man of Legend has said hear applies to both DC and AC, so there is no need to specify DC. In the case of AC, it is slightly more complicated in that the laws refer to the currents and voltages at an instant in time. To deal with average current and average voltage, more complicated topics like capacitance and inductance have to be introduced.
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Nov 16, 2000
To live up to my pedantic name, I feel the need to point out that, at an "instant in time", there can be no currents flowing... Good old Heisenberg...
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Man of Legend Posted Nov 16, 2000
i'm not familiar with hiesburg. but time constants in inductance and capacitance (tau is an instant in time) seem to oppose this theory.
gnomon it's nice to agree with you for a change 
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Nov 16, 2000
I was being facetious, as usual... Heisenburg's uncertainty principle says you can tell the velocity of an object or particle over time, or its position at a given instant, but never both. By extension, this suggests that at any given instant all electrons in a system are stationary, so no current flow can be observed. 
It wasn't intended as a serious argument...
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Man of Legend Posted Nov 17, 2000
I getcha. I suppose it's like the theory of absolute zero. I think we're about to expierence that. I didn't half have frost on my car this morning
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- 1: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Nov 9, 2000)
- 2: Man of Legend (Nov 10, 2000)
- 3: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Nov 10, 2000)
- 4: Man of Legend (Nov 10, 2000)
- 5: Gnomon - time to move on (Nov 16, 2000)
- 6: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Nov 16, 2000)
- 7: Man of Legend (Nov 16, 2000)
- 8: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Nov 16, 2000)
- 9: Man of Legend (Nov 17, 2000)
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