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- From: ftg0673@tamsun.tamu.edu (Rick Grevelle)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp48
- Subject: Re: Volts vs. amps
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 00:55:36 -0600
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- In article <C1DB0J.G7u@ns1.nodak.edu>, jgreff@plains.NoDak.edu (Jason Greff)
- writes:
- > I'm sure you've all heard that it's the amps that kill you, not the volts.
- > That's the truth. It takes as little as .1 Amps, regardless of voltage.
-
- In article <1k2150INN3ct@coral.bucknell.edu> rose@bucknell.edu (philip rose`94)
- writes:
- >I'm sorry, but this is not the truth. It is neither voltage or current
- >alone that kills. Power kills. Power is the product of voltage and current.
-
- You should be sorry Philip Rose '94, because you are grossly misinformed,
- Power is the energy per unit time (p=dw/dt) which as you pointed out is
- simply the product of the current in an element and the voltage drop across
- that element. But it's not the stupid power that will kill you, nor is
- it the voltage because voltage is simply the potential for current to flow.
- Its the actual current that flows through your body that kills, or more
- specifically the rate of charge flow (i=dq/dt). What sort of institution
- are you attending? Perhaps you should consider a different major!?!
-
- Rick Grevelle
- ftg0673@tamsun.tamu.edu
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