From: tombiasi@optonline.net   
      
   On 1/17/2019 3:26 PM, John Larkin wrote:   
   > On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 17:30:11 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:25:38 -0800, John Larkin wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> 10 volt battery, 9K and 1K resistors in series. What's the voltage   
   >>> across the 1K? I had one kid instantly reply "one volt" without   
   >>> thinking, so I hired him as an intern. A month later, he was full-time.   
   >>   
   >> Sorry, John, that's a fail. You didn't state the internal resistance of   
   >> the battery. ;->   
   >   
   > OK, I'll fire him after lunch.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   Blackboard devices are perfect. If the battery was to have an internal   
   resistance it should have been drawn in.   
      
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