On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote:
Ohmic heating is fully conservative, and if you put in 10 watts of electric > power and get back 12 watts of heat, then either it is measurement error… > or > … not exactly Joule heating. > Just to clarify -- I enjoyed the report. I also took particular pleasure in hearing about the nickels that others ended up dissolving; I didn't know that would happen. I was curious -- what were the details of the power measurements? Was the signal steady or did it fluctuate? Did you do any kind of calibration? Eric
