When I was just a kid I learned to remember:


    E
------
I  |  R

as 'the eagle flying over the Indian chasing the Rabbit'

Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems



----- Original Message -----
From: "Hulatt, Jon" <jhulatt@MONSTEREUROPE.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 10:22 AM
Subject: Re: [EE]: Why isn't Ohm's Law written I=V/R?


> But I is only the dependant variable in *one* way of looking at it. V=IR
is
> the appropriate way of writing it if you consider ohm's law to mean " V =
> the voltage drop across resistance R with current I passing through it".
You
> can come up with a similar, equally valid phrase, for the third way of
> writing it out (r=v/i).
>
> I was tought to remember ohm's equation in the same way as the
> distance=speed.time thing:- picture a triangle like this:-
>
>
>         D
>     -----
>     S | T
>
> If you cover up the value you want to find with a finger, the layout of
the
> other 2 gives you the form of the equation.
>
>
>         V
>    -------
>     I | R
>
> Ie. Cover up I, and you see V over R.
>
> Jon
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rick Regan [mailto:drrdr@CHARTER.NET]
> > Sent: 15 April 2004 15:14
> > To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> > Subject: [EE]: Why isn't Ohm's Law written I=V/R?
> >
> >
> >   Does anyone know why Ohm's law is writtem V=IR (E=IR)
> > instead of I=V/R?  Of course I know they're equivalent.
> > I just wondered why - if I is the dependent variable and V
> > and R are the independent variables - it's basic form
> > isn't I=V/R.
> >
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