Re: The Capacitor problem - once more

[John Mallinckrodt <ajmallinckro@CSUPOMONA.EDU>]

On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Leigh Palmer wrote:

> > This reminds me (for some reason) of a little electrical puzzle:
> > which room gets warmer: the one with a 4 kilowatt electric heater
> > or the one with the milk churn that's being driven by a 3 HP motor?
>
> Perhaps switching the 3 and 4 would make that a more intriguing
> question.

Indeed; one of my most used mnemonics is one taught to me by my father a
long time ago in order to remember the relevant conversion here:

  In fourteen hundred and ninety two
  Columbus sailed the ocean blue
  Divide the sonovabitch by two
  And that's the number of watts in a horsepower

Bygones,

John
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