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Old 27th Sep 2017, 10:56 pm   #43
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Default Re: Having a laugh?

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Originally Posted by ms660 View Post
So which way does the voltage flow...
ms- simple answer, from + to -, for engineers. For scientists, it's the other way round as they look at it as electron flow.
It's the same as asking an Engineer for the delay on an RC circuit. Answer is Ohms times Farads. But not to a scientist, who will want to use a long winded exponential formula to arrive at a time a few milli seconds from the engineer.
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