When I studied electrical engineering
twenty-some-odd years ago,
R = V/I was called "resistance",
and r = dv/di was called "dynamic resistance".
Daniel Crowe
Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics
Ardmore Regional Center
dcrowe@sotc.org
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Subject: Re: Internal resistance
Terminology point: On the side of the tracks
where I grew up, "resistance" means the small-signal
resistance,