Re: R = V/I Back Row Comment

[Doug Craigen <dcc@ESCAPE.CA>]

Jim Green wrote:
> > >        The last EE course which I took made the point that the ONLY
> > > 'linear' relations were those that were straight lines passing
> > > through the origin.
>
> Aren't _all_ lines straight?????

Of course 'linear' means straight no matter where the origin is.  I
suspect that what was being talked about was not 'linear relations', but
'linear proportionalities'.  In the latter case the line must pass
through the origin.  Perhaps a quote from the EE textbook would help
out.

()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()

Doug Craigen
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