Re: Ohm's Law

[Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>]

this has sat, forgotten,  in my drafts file since Fri.


Ahhh  I see.  this started out as a question on syllabus, moved to the definition
of resistance, and is now on what's ohmic.

bc  who hope his short term memory serves

p.s. well it's not a majority of one -- I think R=V/I is the definition resistance
(the definition of ohm is a column of Hg.  this also has been posted.)

Bob Sciamanda wrote:

> Every time this emerges, I must break in with the minority view:
>
> I regard R=V/I as simply the definition of the concept "resistance" (there is
> also a "differential resistance" dV/dI) - in the same way as I regard C=Q/V and
> L=-E/(dI/dt) as definitions of capacitance and inductance, where the concepts
> apply (Kirchhoff situations?).  Depending on construction and specific
> circumstances the numerical values of R, C and L for various devices may or may
> not be constants with respect to whatever variables you want to imagine.  This
> should cause no consternation or surprise.
>
> Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)

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