electronic components

[kowalskil@alpha.montclair.edu]

How to call a person spending too much time on a computer? CLICK-POTATO.

On 31 Dec 1996, Al wrote:
 
> We have had good results using a computer interface to measure V vs t for 
> the last couple of years. We use 1% capacitors and measure R with a digital 
> meter. I have used it as an experimental introduction to exponental decay, 
> even before discussing it in class. Log(V) vs t comes very close to linear.

I also never saw a deviation from an exponential discharging of an ordinary
C through R, except when discharging it through an incandescent bulb whose 
filament is very hot at the beginning. That is why the non-exponentionality 
of a supercap was a surprise. By the way, the effective R*C for the light
bulb circuit is larger at the beginning and smaller at the end. This is the
opposite from the behaviour of my supercap.
                                                    Ludwik Kowalski
P.S. 
No Al, I am not calling you a click-potato; the first sentence is supposed 
to be humor. They said on the radio that 21,000,000 Americans used Internet 
on December 30. That is not a new year's joke.