Re: Question about electricity

On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:04:05 -0500, Mark Lloyd
<mlloyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<snip>
A simple
average won't work because the average of the voltage and current is
always zero,

Voltage and current are different things. It doesn't make sense to
combine them that way, and I think you didn't mean to.

Thanks for giving me the benefit of the doubt. I didn't mean to
combine them in any way other than to say the average of each
(separately) is zero. I should have chosen my words more carefully.

And, yes, as you and others have said, the whole discussion assumes a
sine wave.




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