Need help in Aptitude Question

WBahn

Joined Mar 31, 2012
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R1=160Ω
P1=113Watt
V1=X
P1(Watt)=V1²(Volt)/R1(Ω)

like this
You don't put units next to symbolic variables -- a lot of texts and manuals do this sort of nonsense, but it is incorrect. Symbols carry their own units. You don't know if P1 will be in watts or horsepower or calories per hour or what. The units are part of a specific value 1 hp and 746 W are the same thing and both are perfectly valid values for P1.
 

WBahn

Joined Mar 31, 2012
32,866
Maybe he needs to up his Ritalin dosage?
While I believe that Ritalin and other drugs are WAY overprescribed (at least here, don't know about India or other places) and used to turn normally overactive kids into near-zombies, there are many people for whom it is a wonder drug that drastically improves their life. The worst case of ADHD I ever personally interacted with was a kid whose attention span was literally measured in seconds. No matter how hard you tried to get him focused on something he would drift off onto something else within five seconds (ten on a good day) -- it was amazing to watch and you could see his eyes lose focus and his attention drift off. His parents had to pull him out of school and everything else (including our organization). Then about a year later he came back and was bright, alert, and engaged. His father said that he had been put on Ritalin, which they had opposed for a long time but finally agreed to try in desperation, and it had completely turned his life around. He was in the minority of kids for which this drug seemed to be the perfect treatment.
 
You don't put units next to symbolic variables -- a lot of texts and manuals do this sort of nonsense, but it is incorrect. Symbols carry their own units. You don't know if P1 will be in watts or horsepower or calories per hour or what. The units are part of a specific value 1 hp and 746 W are the same thing and both are perfectly valid values for P1.
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@WBahn -- Am I pleased to 'hear' you say that! -- Said practice has annoyed me for years! -- Please know that your posts on the subject of properly applied unit tracking have occasioned my further investigation of same -- with consequent adoption of a new and highly favorable view of said practice!:) (and I say this as one who steadfastly refuses to 'waste time' on flowcharts [Re: software development]) -- Thus it is that, in my attempts at instruction, I too have acquired some new and valuable habits!:cool: -- Many sincere thanks!!!:):):)

Very best regards
HP
 
Hello,

Have a look at this:



Bertus
@bertus

Please note that @RRITESH KAKKAR has no difficulty with 'Ohm's Law', etc... I posted the 'resistor problem' as a 'study specimen' for application of 'simultaneous solution' to nonlinear and mixed linear and nonlinear equations. My idea was to begin with a 'problem type' that he'd be familiar with at an intuitive level -- Seems I've accomplished nothing but creation of confusion...:oops:

Best regards
HP
 
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Aleph(0)

Joined Mar 14, 2015
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PS --- Note that the productivity ratio of the men to the women is 11:1 --- Aye, aye! aye! --- More slackers for @Aleph(0) to dismiss!
Ha ha! At least India test questions aren't pc! I say if test made in usa girls would out preform men 100 to 1 and the more non European ethnicity the better they'd get:rolleyes:! Stupid how self hating we western European types are cuz we're our own denigrators and oppressors:rolleyes: Now I'll stop cuz political carping is no way to be at Christmas time:) I'll be seeing you soon:cool:!
 
How to solve this.
A power handling resistor exhibits a resistance of 160Ω and a maximum dissipation of 113 watts...
What is the maximum applied 'voltage' that will not cause the resistor to overheat?
The point is to solve it via simultaneous equations (as an exercise in application of said technique to 2'nd degree 'functions') --- IOW Derive P=E^2/R from Ohm's law (i.e. E=I*R) and the relation: P=E*I, by writing and solving equations as per the manner illustrated in post #1023 --- Beware of extraneous solutions!:eek::D

See you next month!

Best regards
HP:)
 
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