Wow something I just discovered while procrastinating..

[mzkhadir]

Just finish the spider story and it will all go away.

 

[tweakmm]

Originally posted by: arcenite

Originally posted by: illusion88

Originally posted by: Syringer

Originally posted by: Gibson486
Are you an EE? Because if you are, you should leave the major now.

Clearly I'm not..

yeah that was kinda a dumb question.

Yeah silly, he's an exterminator

QFT. :thumbsup:

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

wow...your posts get more useless every day

 

[DainBramaged]

Battery powered spiders.

 

[Ready]

Originally posted by: Martin
in real life, batteries are not ideal, meaning that there is a small resistance between the actual source and the terminal where you connect them. and what resistors do? disspate energy in the form of heat...

Power = V^2 / R

 

[SaturnX]

Originally posted by: Ready

Originally posted by: Martin
in real life, batteries are not ideal, meaning that there is a small resistance between the actual source and the terminal where you connect them. and what resistors do? disspate energy in the form of heat...

Power = V^2 / R

And V=IR, thus you'll have a large amount of current being generated through the battery, since the resistance within the battery will typically be quite small. So if you leave it like that it'll eventually destroy the battery, or drain it.

--Mark