Re: LF: Re: Important sperimantal revision of ohm's law

["Laurence J Howell" <L.Howell@conocophillips.com>]

                   Alberto di Bene <dibene@usa.net>                                                                 
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Ted Hart apparently wrote :

> The relative phase relationship between current and voltage thru and
on a resistor can be any value.

> What the text books say is that a resistor does not change the phase
relative to the current applied to it.
> It is the duty of a capacitor and inductor to change the phase of the
current thru them,
> the capacitor causes the current to lead, the inductor to lag.
> Let me say that again - a resistor does not change the phase of the
current flowing thru it,
> but it will accept any arbitray phase of the current relative to the
voltage.
> [...]

Hmmmm, I must investigate which kind of grass does grow where that Ted
Hart lives....
It could make a pleasant smoking   :-)

73  Alberto  I2PHD


I agree - what happens is the resistor is a large fraction of a wavelength
long!
Smoking Pure resistance isnt easy... You have to enhale in phase....
Laurence