"Andy Hall" wrote in message news:48933092@qaanaaq...
On 2008-08-01 16:18:52 +0100, "Graham" said:


"Andy Wade" wrote in message
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The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Completely imaginary. do keep up there at the back ;-)

Tee hee. A class answer that, except that it's wrong :~). The
reactance,
a certain number of ohms, is a real value. It's the reactive component
of
the impedance that's purely imaginary. IOW in Z = R + jX the value of X
is real.

Just give the answer you dreamers

Graham

Ah, but you see, we aren't scratching around in the dirt any longer and
have moved on to greater things.

By 1980 I had figured out that sitting around designing electronics,
although interesting and fun, was not going to offer the advancement and
reward that I was looking for.

I had this sort of rubbish in a pub once. The pub bore was propping up the
bar and I got dragged into his conversation while waiting for my pint. I
must have inadvertently said a few technical terms and in reply he started
spouting complete bull**** back at me, liberally peppered with terms he had
heard like AM, FM, Antenna, Ohms, Volts etc. I can only presume that as he
was a bull ****ter, he presumed everyone else was too and that he would get
away with such nonsense. There is only one solution to those people. Turn
around and leave them to it.

Of course you could reply with the actual answer and surprise me.

Graham