On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:20:29 -0700, Roy Lewallen
wrote:

I really appreciate the compliment, and will do my best to try and
deserve it.

Please look very carefully at the diagram at the URL you've posted, and
notice that it's a voltage waveform (see the labeling of the vertical
axis). Then read the text very carefully. Neither the diagram nor the
text contradict what I've said. If you think it does, post the reason
why, and I'll try to clear it up.

Okay, here's the bit that you seem to take exception to (it's spread
over both pages):

"We can define the real power in an AC circuit as the equivalent DC
power that would produce the same amout of heating in a resistive load
as the applied AC waveform. [In a purely resistive load] we can use
the root mean square (RMS) values (Vrms and Irms) to find this
equivalent or RMS power."

Then the equation "P = Vrms x Irms"

Where "P" here explicitly refers to RMS power.

This is something you have stated clearly that you disagree with.
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"What is now proved was once only imagin'd." - William Blake, 1793.