Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Electrical Engineering and us


Was watching a program on Discovery about creation of low and high tides. Moon's gravitational 'field' pulls surface water up as it rotates. Rotating field; something moving; and lag between the two: that's SO MUCH like a synchronous motor!
The next step is to compare the torque equations....gr...won't get to that.



We Indians in the US are like diodes. We stick by the golden rule of (try to) 'be an American in America'. (I know the actual rule is 'be a Roman in Rome' - heck, I just changed it). When we are on a visit to our wonderful homeland we forget we should be 'Indians in India'. We still (perhaps more so) compare things to things American!


Given a set of parallel resistances, electric current proportionally flows more through the smaller ones. If we increase the resistance to states of mind we don't prefer (anger, tension, jealousy etc) we can ease through the preferred path of least resistance known as happiness :-)

9 Comments:

Blogger Nitin said...

Mokkkkkkai!

9:53 PM

 
Blogger Haritha said...

we indians are like diodes.

totally didn't get that simile

10:05 PM

 
Blogger Haritha said...

also i think the states of mind you are referring to represent series resistances. it is inevitable that one transits through all of them :D

10:07 PM

 
Blogger Anand said...

@Nitin: mission accomplished :P

@Haritha: diodes bcos we apply that rule while coming to US, not while getting back...
each series resistor has a jumper across it...its up to us to shunt across the bad ones...muhahaha :)

7:25 AM

 
Blogger Ganesh Kumar said...

Elec. Eng.?!!!!!!! I feel like vomiting whatever i ate for dinner some time back... i am feeling dizzy...somebody help me please......

7:49 AM

 
Blogger Haritha said...

i dont like jumpers... they make you jumpy due to the sparks set out by the parasitic inductance during connection/disconnection.

you have GOT to go through all those mind states to attain happiness. no alternative short-cuts (or shot circuits)

:D

11:02 AM

 
Blogger Anand said...

@H: thats why we have switch debouncers...:)

@Ganesh: podaanga...its idli and sambar for me

6:08 PM

 
Blogger Ganesh Kumar said...

@Anand: oh...I never knew u ate motors and generators for ur breakfast.:)

12:58 AM

 
Blogger Srivatsan Harish Kumar R said...

dei nandu!!!
i go with nitin.
be non technical sometimes atleast.
i got a head ache after reading diodes and resistors in ur blog!!!hehe:-)

10:58 PM

 

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