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- From: crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Snarfy's Equation
- Keywords: mathcheck equation
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.210423.8813@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 21:04:23 GMT
- References: <4067@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us>
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- In article <4067@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us> snarfy@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us writes:
- [stuff deleted]
- >
- > R=6.826*(D^-2)
- >
- > Where R = Ohms per 1000ft
- > and D = Diameter of round copper conductor in mm.
- >
- [data points deleted]
-
- Before we turn this into a universal law, I should point out that your
- resistance per unit length R can also be more usually expressed
- using resistance R as
-
- R/l=4 rho / pi D^2
-
- where rho is the resistivity and l is the length.
-
- At 20C 4 rho / pi = 6.512 Ohm mm^2/1000ft
- for elemental copper. Yours are probably numbers for annealed
- copper wire. The upshot is, though, that rho depends on temperature.
- So your 'law' is only good for a certain temperature range.
-
- I would also like to point out that mixing units in this manner
- is not recommended since it usually leads to grievous error.
-
- dale bass
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