On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:19:21 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>Michael Zier wrote:
>
>> "Much to learn you have!"
>
>True enough...
>
>> Take a capacitor: initially it's discharged. Now connect it to a voltage 
>> source, the first instant you do, the voltage across the capacitor is 
>> still zero
>
>How on earth do you work that one out?
>
>If you connect a capacitor to a 9 V source, then the potential 
>difference across the capacitor is... exactly 9 V. In which universe is 
>that 0 V?

You don't do it directly you use a resistor in series to limit the
current. Michael left this step out for simplicity. Probably not
wanting to overload your brain :)

>> That's very basic electrical engineering, you know... but maybe your 
>> universe is different after all. SCNR
>
>Ah, maybe...
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Regards
     Stephen

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