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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Some toner transfer experiments

From: "Stefan Trethan" <stefan_trethan@...>
Date: 2006-04-26

Not really, no.
Impedance is the sum of resistance and reactance.
Reactance is the capacitive or inductive component.

So for static DC signals resistance is impedance, but for AC it isn't.

if you are ever unsure of things like that, or wonder what something is,
try entering "define: impedance" in google and watch the magic.

ST

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 18:32:30 +0200, Robert Hedan
<robert.hedan@...> wrote:

> Impedance is the same as resistance?
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> Crap, you've just made things so much clearer for me now. Seriously, I
> had
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> yet seen a place that said they were one and the same. Ok, I don't look
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> that deeply, but still. I had learned what resistance was (along with
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> voltage and current), and then I kept seeing references to impedance here
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> and there, never picking up exactly what it meant.
>
>
> Robert
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>