Spehro Pefhany wrote:
>
> We can see** that the maximum is at alpha = 0.5  and
> we have R = 10K * 0.5^2 = 2.5K  (two 5K resistances in parallel)
>
> ** if you want to do it by the book, set the derivative = 0 to find
> the maxima/minima and we get 1-2*alpha = 1 => alpha = 0.5.
>   
/me goes to bed to sleep off the effects of too much outdoors :-)


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