Re: >^..^< The cats on the 2nd Sunday in Advent, 2007

On 5 Jan 2008 12:25:27 -0500 in rec.arts.sf.fandom, "Keith F. Lynch"
<kfl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote,
The actual power used is the product of the RMS current, the RMS
voltage, and the cosine of the angle between them.

Only correct when both of them are sine waves.
.

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