Hey guys. I've not been reading this thread in great detail because I assumed it would remain technical.
I've read one post (above) and now I'm not so sure.
Please try to keep the math separate from emotion. If you can't do that, try to play the ball and not the man.
You're all big boys, and if I have to clean this thread up it will be a real pain because there's a lot of information mixed with the invective.
Incidentally, I have a foot in both (or is that all three?) camps regarding this. I don't think there's a perfect answer to this as we apply the same math to other things (F = ma) and yet we don't call that Ohms Law.
When we arrive at (after various mathematical transformations) at a value that represents some form of voltage being proportional to some value representing current and we determine there is another factor which represents the constant of proportionality, which we may or may not call resistance, then we can say it is Ohm's Law, or we can say it's like Ohm's law.
It strikes me that we are arguing over whether it IS or it is LIKE Ohm's law.
And personally, the difference is so small that I can live with people having either view, or describing it in either way, or indeed simply describing the relationship in terms of proportionality.
I don't know? Is anyone arguing that it is something different?
I've read one post (above) and now I'm not so sure.
Please try to keep the math separate from emotion. If you can't do that, try to play the ball and not the man.
You're all big boys, and if I have to clean this thread up it will be a real pain because there's a lot of information mixed with the invective.
Incidentally, I have a foot in both (or is that all three?) camps regarding this. I don't think there's a perfect answer to this as we apply the same math to other things (F = ma) and yet we don't call that Ohms Law.
When we arrive at (after various mathematical transformations) at a value that represents some form of voltage being proportional to some value representing current and we determine there is another factor which represents the constant of proportionality, which we may or may not call resistance, then we can say it is Ohm's Law, or we can say it's like Ohm's law.
It strikes me that we are arguing over whether it IS or it is LIKE Ohm's law.
And personally, the difference is so small that I can live with people having either view, or describing it in either way, or indeed simply describing the relationship in terms of proportionality.
I don't know? Is anyone arguing that it is something different?