Is the source internal resistance really a resistance?
I dedicate this story to my students from groups 48 and 49, ITI Traditionally, at the beginning of the first lab on Semiconductor Devices , I remind my students of Electrical Engineering basics . Of course, I start with electrical concepts such as ideal and real voltage and current sources. And, f or the last time, I realized how difficult they are to understand... as soon as I felt that I was still thinking about them starting somewhere in the 70's. Because the bare truth is that we know them... but do not understand them. Such a fundamental electrical concept is "source internal resistance". I dedicate this post to it in the hope that this will arouse the interest of my students in electrical phenomena. Classic viewpoint It is said that "the real voltage source has internal resistance". Thus, it is represented by an electrical equivalent circuit of two elements - an ideal voltage source and a resistor . However, this creates a misconception of physical r...