Recent content by DJJB

Ideally, Yes. But in the real world there are ALOT of losses associated with this such as sound, vibration, thermal loss in the wires and leads and so on. Nothing is 100% efficient.

So I am an engineering student working on co-op and I ran into a problem. I have a resistor like the image above. I placed this resistor in free space, leads in vertical position (Ambient: 296K ) and I placed 10W of electrical power into it. What I need to find is the thermal coefficient...