Hi Ratch,

Ratch wrote:
"Chuck Harris" wrote in message
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Hi Ratch,

What do G. Ohm, J. Maxwell, N. Tesla, J. Watt, Coulomb, Hertz, ...
all have in common?

What does the fact of receiving awards and honors posthumously have to
do with what we are discussing?

I said nothing of awards and honors! The various scientific societies
went on a spree of naming every little thing after the giants
in the field. Torr, Tesla, Hertz, Ohm, Coulomb, Maxwell, Heisenberg,
Watt, Ampere, Curie, Voltair, and on and on and on. The things that
were named after these people were not necessarily things they had had
anything to do with.

George Ohm did NOT name this, or any other formula after himself!
That was done long after his death by fellow engineers and scientists.
It was done to honor the man. His contribution was large, so he got
a fundumental principal.


If you ask engineers what is Ohm's law, they will say E = iR,


Only because they learned it that way. If you explained the misnomer,
then what would they say?

They would say, it is not a misnomer, it is just a different equation
that is also given Ohm's name.

A misnomer is not a study approach. Voltage and current have the same
meaning throughout science no matter how many different ways they are
studied or explained by representative analogs.

You imagine that Ohm did only one thing, and that he named that thing
after himself. He did not. He did many things over his lifetime.
There is no one equation that sums up his life's work. The equations
named for Ohm were named by others long after his death. The naming
was done to honor the man for his contributions to the sciences.

So, just as you can quote a couple of physics text books and "prove"
that ohm's law is one thing, I can quote an equal number of
engineering text books that say otherwise.


Those texts I quoted are really good college level textbooks. Would
the authors you would quote be able to defend their writings after being
shown what I believe is the error of their ways? Ratch

And the texts in my library are also "really good college level
textbooks", written by prominent members of the electrical engineering
field.

Resnick is just another contemporary author of a physics book.
He is only restating what he was told, or what he believes to be true.
If you check his book out, you will find that there are no references
cited to back up his work. This is primarily because the college
text books are restatements of restatements .... It is hard to tell
where all the info originlly came from. The books are written by
professors, and professors, well, profess.

-Chuck