Andy, what's a little excess leakage between friends? Steve. At 09:49 PM 8/17/2004 -0400, Andrew Ingraham wrote: >Steve Weir wrote: > > > ... I thought that virtually everyone who had two or more > > semesters of physics knew this ... > >Yeah, they probably taught it. But making the connection from classroom to >practical applications isn't guaranteed. Photoelectric effect is something >you don't normally think devices do unless they were designed for it. But >it's not something you need to design into an IC. I'll bet lots of >engineers don't realize that, or don't remember it from their physics >classes (having never encountered it). > >I learned my lesson about photoelectric effects in my first engineering job, >when I added some protection diodes (in glass packages) to a circuit and saw >funny stuff when the lights went on. > >Regards, >Andy > > >------------------------------------------------------------------ >To unsubscribe from si-list: >si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field > >or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: >//www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list > >For help: >si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field > >List FAQ wiki page is located at: > http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ > >List technical documents are available at: > http://www.si-list.org > >List archives are viewable at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list >or at our remote archives: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages >Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: > http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu > ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List FAQ wiki page is located at: http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.org List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu