Re: [Phys-L] The status of Kirchhoff''s laws

[Derek Chirnside <derek.chirnside@gmail.com>]

Well done John.

One edit has already been undone:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kirchhoff%27s_circuit_laws&action=history

Annotation: (I hardly think that KL is an approximation to Maxwell only at
DC. Undid revision 541784502 by
Jsd<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Jsd>
 (talk <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jsd>))

I couldn't follow exactly the gist of it.

-Derek

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On 3 March 2013 13:44, John Denker <jsd@av8n.com> wrote:

> On 02/28/2013 03:10 PM, Bruce Sherwood wrote:
> > Recently there was some commentary on the status of Kirchhoff's laws. I'd
> > like to present a somewhat unconventional take on them, with pedagogical
> > consequences.
>
> [lots of good stuff snipped]
>
> I hope over time the right answer will become the conventional
> answer.
>
> I just now edited the wikipedia article
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirchhoff%27s_circuit_laws
>
> There are still lots of problems, but I got rid of some of the
> worst nonsense.
>
> On 02/24/2013 10:37 PM, Chuck Britton wrote:
>
> > > Can the WikiPedia article be improved?
> > > Or is it more valuables as an object of derision?
>
> Let's do the experiment.  I tried improving it.  If the fixes don't
> stick, I'll just write something on the subject for my own web site,
> and we can go back to using the wikipedia article as an object of
> derision.
>
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