MicroVAX II

From: John Allain <allain_at_panix.com>
Date: Sun Nov 24 15:15:45 2002

I don't know if anybody said it here yet (I try* to not read the
list all day long) but the voltage _drop_ of a wire carrying X
volts isn't X, especially for the purposes of calculating power
loss. One of those "You're Both right" kind of things.

- - -
A Phd friend of mine told me that he thought it was a mistake
to enlist in the Marines After getting his 4y degree instead of
before. On one of their tests they asked for the 'Three basic
laws governing electricity' or some such. He was worried that
he might get one of the equations wrong -- it might have been
all three. They wanted V=IR, P=IV, I=V/R... he gave them
Maxwell's equations.

John A.
*still trying and not always succeeding<g>
Received on Sun Nov 24 2002 - 15:15:45 GMT