Re: Ohm's Law

[Herbert H Gottlieb <herbgottlieb@JUNO.COM>]

> > "that the resistance is independent of the voltage [temp, etc held
> > constant]" is a statement about a property of certain
> > particular materials.
> > For me,  R=V/I merely defines the resistance of a current
> > path, in many
> > useful circumstances; the value of that R may be a function
> > of many things, including V.
> >
> > Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)
> > Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
> > trebor@velocity.net
> > www.velocity.net/~trebor


The above wording may be a bit confusing. I believe that Bob meant to
say that "the resistance is independent of the voltage provided
that the temperature remains constant"

Herb Gottlieb