Xref: utzoo sci.electronics:7986 sci.physics:9836 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!wrgate!midas!jeffw From: jeffw@midas.WR.TEK.COM (Jeff Winslow) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.physics Subject: Re: A violation of the law of conservation of energy Keywords: paradox Message-ID: <277@wrgate.WR.TEK.COM> Date: 28 Sep 89 14:23:24 GMT References: <318@massey.ac.nz> <1989Sep28.013457.28172@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: nobody@wrgate.WR.TEK.COM Reply-To: jeffw@midas.WR.TEK.COM (Jeff Winslow) Followup-To: sci.electronics Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Lines: 11 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