a simple circuit

(thing) by StormHunter Thu May 11 2000 at 21:41:15
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A voltage accross a resistor. That's as simple as they come.
(thing) by bob the cow Thu May 11 2000 at 23:38:00
You fool, you forgot a voltage across absolutely nothing!
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(thing) by baffo Thu May 11 2000 at 23:54:38
You dolts, you forgot the even simpler circuit !
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Wave it in a magnetic field ! Watch that induction happen !
And the simplest of them all, contained in the following line:

 

 

It is impressive how some people go for complexity any change they get. And bitter_engineer, down there, just does not get it: you don't have to wave it in a magnetic field. It can just sit there and be ... simple.
(thing) by bitter_engineer Fri May 12 2000 at 0:38:18
You are all wrong.

bob the cow is wrong because every medium across which voltage can be induced has some resistance, even if it is infintesimal. Remember: V=iR, by definition.

baffo is wrong because the mechanism to change the magnetic field can be modelled as a voltage source, reducing it to StormHunter's example.

StormHunter's example is correct for almost every instance you can see in The Real World, but one can induce a current in a loop of superconducting material, then remove the transient and let it run indefinitely, or until you perturb its magnetic field. R=0, so V=0.

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