"The world of electrical engineering would have been a far more more
understandable place if Thevenin and other trivial theorem inventors of
his ilk
had never existed."
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Spoken by a person who is extremely ignorant of what he writes about.

It is because of Thevenin's theorem that complicated circuits can be
reduced to
the equivalent circuit consisting of only two components: a voltage source
and
an impedance. This is a powerful tool. If I didn't know it, I'd learn
it.

73 de Jack, K9CUN

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For heaven's sake Jack, is THAT all what it's about ?


How come 95% of the contributors to this newsgroup come to blows with each
other about the manner of its application? Apparently Thevenin is a severe
educational handicap rather than an asset. But perhaps newsgroup Guru's at
loggerheads with each other are not representative of the engineering
fraternity in general.


Normal sixteen year-old students, with the right teacher, grasp the idea
immediately without they or their teacher ever having heard of Thevenin. It
can then be forgotten. It's so bleeding obvious!


As John Cleese implies - students, even at that tender age, should be
endowed with a first-class honors degree, including cap and gown, in the
venerable practice of the ancient Babylonians, Hittites and Egyptians in
stating the obvious.


In this more recent age, can we soon expect a graduate of that rat-infested
campus of the Rio de Janerio sewers to announce in a blaze of glory that "A
complicated circuit is reduceable to an equivalent circuit consisting merely
of two components: a current source and an impedance."? Let's hope his
name will be pronounceable.
----
Yours, Reg. ;o)