Post by ashcatlt on Sept 6, 2008 17:48:28 GMT -5
I almost had to get out of bed at 04:00 today to post this question. What was that was said about "no life"?
It seems to me like current, being a member of Ohm's gang, deserves to be represented by its own initial letter. Much more than capacitance, I'd think. So why not? Is it possible that we discovered capacitance, and started calling it C, before current? Who chose I, and why? Is it some Latin thing? (Darn you Menudo!)
If we freed up the I, we could apply it somewhere it makes more sense. I'd vote for impedance. Its DC alter-ego gets to use its own name, after all. Inductance would seem slightly less important. But then, why do we call that L? Menudo again? Why not H? It's closer in the alphabetic sequence to I, and represents the typical unit of measure for this parameter. Of course, this might lead to confusing statements like H = xH (where x is some non-negative real number), which can only be true if H = 0. But, you know, we do this with voltage all the time and nobody complains.
So, what's up? I'd be willing to bet that sumbody around here knows the answer, but since he's not likely to drop by just to answer my question, maybe somebody who's name starts with capacitance and ends with kiloohm (or is that cathode)? Of course, I'll take the answer from anybody.
It seems to me like current, being a member of Ohm's gang, deserves to be represented by its own initial letter. Much more than capacitance, I'd think. So why not? Is it possible that we discovered capacitance, and started calling it C, before current? Who chose I, and why? Is it some Latin thing? (Darn you Menudo!)
If we freed up the I, we could apply it somewhere it makes more sense. I'd vote for impedance. Its DC alter-ego gets to use its own name, after all. Inductance would seem slightly less important. But then, why do we call that L? Menudo again? Why not H? It's closer in the alphabetic sequence to I, and represents the typical unit of measure for this parameter. Of course, this might lead to confusing statements like H = xH (where x is some non-negative real number), which can only be true if H = 0. But, you know, we do this with voltage all the time and nobody complains.
So, what's up? I'd be willing to bet that sumbody around here knows the answer, but since he's not likely to drop by just to answer my question, maybe somebody who's name starts with capacitance and ends with kiloohm (or is that cathode)? Of course, I'll take the answer from anybody.
