Cecil,

You can be the master of brevity, at least when it serves your purposes.
You might take a look at the entire sentence rather than clip out the
portion that sets the context.

"Certainly these consolidating functions are useful for a general
overview, but how can you learn anything about the details of a complex
system by averaging and netting?"

By the way, "steady-state analysis" has nothing whatsoever to do with
averaging. Steady-state simply means the system does not have a defined
starting time. There are no remaining startup transients. It cannot be
determined whether operation started one second ago or one year ago.
Steady-state does not mean DC, averaged, or RMS.



73,
Gene
W4SZ

Cecil Moore wrote:
Gene Fuller wrote:

... how can you learn anything about the details of a complex system
by averaging and netting?


Because the conservation of energy principle is about
averaging and netting. Because steady-state analysis
is about averaging and netting. Because engineers
have 200 years of averaging and netting behind us
to prove that it works. When you try to track an
individual electron's velocity and position, guess
what happens?