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Najib Idrissi

07:23

@AméricoTavares I'm sorry but I don't quite follow. How does the existence of answers imply that the question is on-topic? It is a basic question on electrical circuits. I know some people can learn about units or Newton's laws in something that's called a "math" class, but here it seems to be an enormous stretch...

The only difficulty seems to be writing down the equations (which doesn't involve math but rather the physics behind the problem), once they're written down they're immediate to solve.

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Américo Tavares

10:26

@NajibIdrissi I agree with you in general, but let me make the following specific comments: How does the existence of answers imply that the question is on-topic? It doesn't. However, it is my opinion that the existence of an answer (or answers) that shows (or show) a possible approach (or approaches) to the problem imply that the question was understood, even if the equations had not been written down. It *is* a basic question on electrical circuits. I do agree.

@NajibIdrissi I agree with you in general, but let me make the following specific comments: "How does the existence of answers imply that the question is on-topic?" It doesn't. However, it is my opinion that the existence of an answer (or answers) that shows (or show) a possible approach (or approaches) to the problem imply that the question was understood, even if the equations had not been written down. "It is a basic question on electrical circuits." I do agree.

"I know some people can learn about units or Newton's laws in something that's called a "math" class" This is why e.g. simple kinematics or dynamics questions are usually considered on topic here and tagged as `(physics)`. "here it seems to be an enormous stretch..." The question is about rather simple `electrodynamics` applied to an a/c circuit. It seems to me that if the question were e. g. about a pure resistive circuit, then it might be considered on topic, but I'm not sure.

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