Not using the correct resistors does cause a U problem every once in a while.

Sounds like a 6 ohm resistor solution.

OK, the solution is "how accurate will make the physicist and accountants both only kinda mad"

I'm not an engineer

Too true, and my problem is about to be your problem and the cycle continues comrade.

Real world resistors usually have a tolerance of ±5%, so you'll never get anything that precise.

First, assume a spherical resistor in a vacuum, that can also dissipate heat with 100% efficiency.

Now that we’re in physics land, anything is possible.

Its funny the first thing I thought of was, at what temperature.

Numbers like that should have been why you kept going in mech E.

Once you get past the educational stage, every one of those calculations becomes "OK now round to the closest whole number that gives you the larger factor of safety and move on"

The trick is to round everything. Pi? Basically 3.

I actually really like physics, and it's 100% because I'm fucked up and evil

After calculus though, they just expect you to cope with fucked up coefficients. In Diff Eq, sometimes you do just get something like 3/111 cos (6/111 x). It gets harder to come up with examples that work out with nice integers.

Physics can also have some really beautiful math, look at Lissajous figures. Once you understand the connections between e, the imaginary plane, and sine/cosine, you get some profound understandings about how electric and magnetic fields work.

Yeah we’re living in the ruins of the old America already and have been for like 25 years.

It’s dirty they just use the same business names they did in the 20th century. While making smoke and mirrors versions of the old products.

i did not know what all those bins of tiny electronic hobby parts were for, but I desperately wanted to learn.

From what I understand, prior to the personal computer boom of the 1980's, HAM radio was kind of a big deal with nerds. The parts were there for all manner of electronics tinkering, but a big mainstay was building and modifying radios. Yeah, you had people tinkering with computers in the 1970's too, but it was more niche (until it wasn't).

Trimmable precision resistor.

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