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Physicists have their own battles, like electrical engineers using Ohm's Law as a definition of impedance.
by castratikron 7y ago
Physicists have their own battles, like electrical engineers using Ohm's Law as a definition of impedance.
- rrss 7y agoWhat's the battle there? How do physicists define impedance?
- castratikron 7y agoOhm's law is an empirical law that only holds in certain circumstances. A classic exercise is measuring the current and voltage across a lightbulb, plotting it, and measuring the slope of the line. The slope is the impedance. Then you turn up the voltage and watch the line turn into a curve, which is where the law breaks down and doesn't apply anymore. The engineers treat it like a definition and assume linearity over all voltage.