Re: HELP!! Need answers for test!!!

["petem" <petem001@xxxxxxxxx>]

If we agree that it doesn't matter to any of us when we are in front of our
respective BBQ cooking some amazingly better hamburger then the one bASS
make,then we have a deal..


"Robertm" <Respond@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de news:
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> We drop the voltage and subsequently it reduces the current. Or we pass
> current through a resistor and it produces a voltage drop thereby limiting
> the current. Voltage and current through a resistor are dependent on each
> other. No current, no voltage drop. The only argument remaining is the
> language we choose to say the same thing. I think we are all saying the
> same thing in one way or another.
>
> Bob
>
> "petem" <petem001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>I do not agree and this link will say the same
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>> http://www.answers.com/topic/resistor
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>> a resistor is limiting current not voltage
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>> "Robertm" <Respond@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de news:
>> dnf3hr$8ru3$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>>> "Frank Olson" <Use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>>> message news:o8Emf.86172$Eq5.55760@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Robertm wrote:
>>>>> "Gator" <karlwithgator@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>>>> news:1134230554.622109.98820@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>> What device reduces
>>>>>
>>>>>>current?a)resistor, b)capacitor?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Not enough information given for an (a) or (b) answer. A resistor will
>>>>> reduce both ac and dc current. A capacitor will reduce ac current
>>>>> dependent on frequency and value of capacitor, while completely
>>>>> blocking dc current. If we are talking dc, then a resistor will reduce
>>>>> the current somewhat whereas a capacitor will reduce it to zero after
>>>>> the initial inrush current.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bob
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> A resistor won't reduce current.  It'll drop voltage, but the current
>>>> remains unaffected.  A capacitor will reduce current.
>>>
>>> I agree, if we are looking strictly at the added resistor, it is a
>>> voltage dropping device, not a current dropping device, and all
>>> calculations for the load are based on the dropping voltage across the
>>> added resistor even though the net effect of the resistor is that the
>>> current will be reduced by reducing the voltage, assuming a series
>>> resistive circuit.
>>>
>>> Bob
>>>
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