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To: donh
Which is, of course, totally irrelevant, since you did not pin their junctions together to get the tunneling effect of the PN pair regulating the net output.

Which, of course, makes my original statement, that a transistor was in a sense two diodes back-to-back, entirely correct. But you still have the gall to continue the discussion. It is now ended. You have verified my original statement.

1,587 posted on 05/18/2003 5:39:14 PM PDT by AndrewC
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To: AndrewC
Which, of course, makes my original statement, that a transistor was in a sense two diodes back-to-back, entirely correct. But you still have the gall to continue the discussion. It is now ended. You have verified my original statement.

What you have done here, in your usual jesuistic way, is substitute one field of discourse for another as suits your fancy. One may speak of a diode as an actual physical package you may hold in your hand, and solder into a circuit. One may also speak of the fundamental properties of a diode, as a mathematician would in defining it's properties. To a mathematician, (and this is whom you would ask in this discussion) a transister is two diodes close enough together for the quantum tunneling affect to take place, thereby rendering one of the diodes a controlling choke on the other diode's output. If you look at the math model, or you look at the blowup in your freshman engineering textbook, you will see that it is two diodes glued together. Anyone, even someone with as much weasel blood as you, can verify this in a few minutes in a library.

1,635 posted on 05/19/2003 12:17:07 PM PDT by donh (/)
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