fish@ihu1g.UUCP (Bob Fishell) (02/14/84)
Here are the solutions, as promised for:
1) Who is Eli the ice man, and why is he important?
a:"ELI the ICE man" is a mnemonic which helps you remember phase relations
in a reactive circuit. If the circuit is inductive (L) the voltage (E)
leads the current (I), and E comes before I in the word ELI. If a
circuit is capacitive (C), the reverse applies; current leads voltage,
hence ICE.
Remembering this is important for numerous reasons, especially power factor
computation. The amount of real energy a circuit is dissipating depends
on the relative phase of the voltage and current. A capacitor will correct
the power factor for an inductive circuit, and vice versa.
2) What do bad boys do, and to whom does this not apply?
a:This refers to a well-known mnemonic for the resistor color code. It's
not taught any more -- and rightly so -- because it is offensive to women.
I have appended it here in rotated form for this reason. As to the practice
of the bad boys, it doesn't apply to Violet.
I've yet to hear a non-sexist replacement that really sticks. Anybody
got some good ones?
zarzbavp pbybe inyhr
Onq Oynpx 0
Oblf Oebja 1
Encr Erq 2
Bhe Benatr 3
Lbhat Lryybj 4
Tveyf, Terra 5
Ohg Oyhr 6
Ivbyrg Ivbyrg 7
Tvirf Terl 8
Jvyyvatyl. Juvgr 9
Trg Tbyq .01/ 5% gby.
Fbzr Fvyire .1 /10% gby.
Abj! Abar -- /20% gby.
--
Bob Fishell
ihnp4!ihu1g!fishhxe@rayssd.UUCP (02/16/84)
Non-sexist version of the resistor code:
Bad Beer Rots Our Young Guts, But Vermouth Goes Well
-Heather {allegra, decvax!brunix, ccieng5, linus} rayssd!hxe