Ohms law

To all in thread,

I appreciate all the feed back and never discourage differing ideas and actually encourage the behavior. I love having someone change the way I think or is very passionate about the way things are. The reason I asked the question is that I will be going to Florida Tech next year and intend to get my dual major in Electrical engineering/Computer science. Then I want to intern at space X or maybe JPL and work on something space related. In your opinions I want to know how in depth of an understanding you think is necessary to accomplish my goals. In regards to all post up to this point it has painted a lovely picture in my mind about voltage and current. Let me just state what I believe to be true (Based on conventional theory due to my lack of understanding of physics at this time).

In order to understand I had to think of voltage in terms of resistance. When you use a multi meter to measure resistance what are you doing? You multimeter, armed with an internal source of voltage, measures how hard it is to push current though whatever your measuring. By seeing how much current was pushed through to the other side you are able to see how much resistance there is based on OHM's law.

Again thanks for all the support and keep the comments flying( No matter how off topic us nerds get)

Hi Mitchell,

What you explain was all proper. I think you are going to be successful in your goal. I was pleased to see from your other post that you are doing something that I feel is essential to success in any field of endeavor and that is self educate. I would also encourage you to concentrate on the foundational knowledge of your goal. You may be able to get by if you don't have it but you will never regret knowing the basics and it will give you a leg up on the other students. I would recommend that you find a good text book on Physics and Calculus and start working your way through them. Most texts have the answers in the back of the book to some of the review questions. If you concentrate on these questions you will have a way to test yourself. I feel that the basic knowledge is of particular importance if you will be coding which requires that you know the complexities of the real world so that you can create the model that you are coding. In my opinion the big difference between those who get by and those who excel is the ability to self educate. I wish you the best of luck.

John

Hi Mitchell,

What you explain was all proper. I think you are going to be successful in your goal. I was pleased to see from your other post that you are doing something that I feel is essential to success in any field of endeavor and that is self educate. I would also encourage you to concentrate on the foundational knowledge of your goal. You may be able to get by if you don't have it but you will never regret knowing the basics and it will give you a leg up on the other students. I would recommend that you find a good text book on Physics and Calculus and start working your way through them. Most texts have the answers in the back of the book to some of the review questions. If you concentrate on these questions you will have a way to test yourself. I feel that the basic knowledge is of particular importance if you will be coding which requires that you know the complexities of the real world so that you can create the model that you are coding. In my opinion the big difference between those who get by and those who excel is the ability to self educate. I wish you the best of luck.

John