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Old August 19th 03, 11:07 AM
 
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"Dr. Slick" wrote:

Ohms are still always Ohms, regardless of what you are measuring.
And it's very interesting that the E and H fields have units of
Volts/meter and Ampere(turn)/meter, which when you divide one by the
other, you get basically Volts/ampere, just like you would in a
transmission line.


How do you know when the reduced units of one computation mean the
same thing as another?

An example:
The reduced units of modulus of elasticity (in/in/psi - psi) is
the same as the units for stress (psi) and yet modulus of elasticity
is clearly not stress. And in this case, the unreduced units are
much more descriptive than the reduced units. Reducing discards
information.

On the other hand, Torque (Newton*metres) when multiplied by
Radians (metre/metre) does give Energy (N*m*m/m - N*m), but only
after reduction. And for sure, Torque (N*m) is not the same as
Energy (N*m).

So sometimes it is appropriate to say the reduced results are the
same and some times it is not. Is there a way to know when it is
legal?

What rules have you used to conclude that reducing V/m/A/m to V/A
is appropriate?

....Keith