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From: austin@nsc-pdc.UUCP (Austin Mack)
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Subject: Thevinin/Norton equivalents
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Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 13:23:44 EDT
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	Thanks to everyone for all the replies to my previous posting.
	Many of you answered (correctly) that the boxes are indeed
	electrically equivalent, but the heat generated by current
	flowing through the resistor will cause the Norton box to be
	warm. I think Jonathon E. Quist (ihnp4!laidbak!jeq) had the
	best summary. In addition to the one box being warm, he pro-
	posed suspending both boxes by a thread. The norton box will
	align itself with the Earth's magnetic field!

					Thanks again,

					Austin Mack