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Re: Can this be accomplished?

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From: Archimedes' Lever
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 02:16
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On Sun, 10 May 2009 20:53:24 -0400, Jerry Avins <jya@ieee.org> wrote:

>GreenXenon wrote:
>> Hi:
>> 
>> Does a device that switches frequency [in number of Hz] with peak-to-
>> peak amplitude [in number of in electron(s)-per-second-per-square-
>> meter] � and visa versa -- exist? If not, is it possible to construct
>> one?
>> 
>> In this device, the input of a signal that has a frequency of X Hz and
>> a peak-to-peak amplitude of Y electron[s]-per-second-per-square-meter
>> will result in the output of a signal that has a frequency of Y Hz and
>> a peak-to-peak amplitude of X electron[s]-per-second-per-square-meter.
>
>The question is based on a completely erroneous assumption. Electrons 
>per second per square meter is a current density, if an electron's 
>charge is accounted for. In electronics, it is usually current, not 
>current density, that matters.
>
>The OP typically asks abstruse questions that, on analysis, are only 
>approximately meaningful. I can imagine that he was praised as a child 
>for asking what the adults around him thought were deep questions, and 
>that he has essentially retarded himself deliberately in an attempt to 
>relive the days of easy praise. There's a line in Gilbert and Sullivan's 
>/Patience/: "If this young man expresses himself in terms too deep for 
>me, Why, what a very singularly deep young man this deep young man must 
>be!" Poor young man!
>
>Jerry


  That's deep.
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