The only thing I can tell you is that I remember seeing these terms in a
textbook dating from the 1920s. Such books are very likely to be still
in libraries in the Indian subcontinent. Indeed, some of them include
information that is still valuable, or at least interesting, today and
not found elsewhere. For example, another ancient textbook (I can't
remember the title) describes an air-cored inductor of 1 henry with a
resistance of 1 ohm. Easily simulated in Spice, but requires a small
building to house it in real life.
Best wishes John Woodgate OOO-Own Opinions Only www.woodjohn.uk
Rayleigh, Essex UK MAY THE VIRUS NOT BE WITH YOU dum nisi ex silvis sumus
On 2020-05-20 12:07, Edward Price wrote:
*An Etymological Diversion:*
**
*I was recently following a conversation which involved mention of the
design of Acceptor & Rejector circuits. I soon realized that these
terms actually referred to Series and Parallel resonant circuits (the
names obviously describing the input currents at resonance). While I
can see that these terms might helpful to a new student (perhaps more
accurate than thinking of water sloshing back and forth in a “tank”
circuit and intuitively simpler than the math of Impedance),*
**
*I wondered about the origin of these terms. From what I can tell,
these idiosyncratic terms seem to be favored by South Asians (Indians
& Pakistanis); can anyone cite the date and origin of Acceptor &
Rejector? Are these terms recognized in the IEEE’s dictionary?*
**
*/Ed Price
/**WB6WSN**/
/**Chula Vista, CA USA*
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