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From: jeffw@midas.WR.TEK.COM (Jeff Winslow)
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Subject: Re: A violation of the law of conservation of energy
Keywords: paradox
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Date: 28 Sep 89 14:23:24 GMT
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In article <1989Sep28.013457.28172@agate.berkeley.edu> aephraim@garnet.berkeley.edu (Aephraim M. Steinberg) writes:
>A clear way of seeing that this calculation is faulty without even bothering
>to complain about the impossibility of zero-resistance and zero-inductance
>(it seems to me that the same error could be made as easily with a finite
>R)...

If you have a finite R, the "missing energy" is dissipated as heat in the
resistor. I worked it out on the net when the subject came up before - wish
I'd saved it. But it's pretty easy.

						Jeff Winslow