Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 12:50 pm
Tesla may have been a good experimentalist but he did not understand Q multiplication. A very glaring theoretical deficiency.
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He got at least part way there:MSimon wrote:Tesla may have been a good experimentalist but he did not understand Q multiplication. A very glaring theoretical deficiency.
It has been a while since I read the Tesla book on electronics and I don't currently have it handy so all I have is a recollection. What I do recall thinking is that any freshman in electronics would have a better understanding than what Tesla laid out in his book.alexjrgreen wrote:He got at least part way there:MSimon wrote:Tesla may have been a good experimentalist but he did not understand Q multiplication. A very glaring theoretical deficiency.
http://www.teslasociety.com/teslarec.pdf
You have a specific example in mind, perhaps?
Which book did you read?MSimon wrote:It has been a while since I read the Tesla book on electronics and I don't currently have it handy so all I have is a recollection.
I don't recall. It did give what he thought the math was for his wireless experiments.alexjrgreen wrote:Which book did you read?MSimon wrote:It has been a while since I read the Tesla book on electronics and I don't currently have it handy so all I have is a recollection.
This is the key point. Non-trivial discussion of this is rare.hanelyp wrote:I don't recall what Tesla books I've read, but I got the distinct impression he didn't have a good understanding on conservation of energy.
Here is the Tesla book I had in mind:alexjrgreen wrote:He got at least part way there:MSimon wrote:Tesla may have been a good experimentalist but he did not understand Q multiplication. A very glaring theoretical deficiency.
http://www.teslasociety.com/teslarec.pdf
You have a specific example in mind, perhaps?
I've ordered it.MSimon wrote:Here is a Tesla book I read a while back and really enjoyed. It covers some of Tesla's inventions in his own words. It gives a feel for how much Tesla understood about electrical theory and how much he was ignorant of. Any second year student in electrical theory would be familiar with this material, but when Tesla wrote it up it was state of the art. We have come a long way.
The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla (The Lost Science Series)
The book is interesting. It has a fair amount of Tesla in his own words and a bunch of craziness that I never looked at.alexjrgreen wrote:I've ordered it.MSimon wrote:Here is a Tesla book I read a while back and really enjoyed. It covers some of Tesla's inventions in his own words. It gives a feel for how much Tesla understood about electrical theory and how much he was ignorant of. Any second year student in electrical theory would be familiar with this material, but when Tesla wrote it up it was state of the art. We have come a long way.
The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla (The Lost Science Series)
Interesting author: http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/s ... aeologist/
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