RE: B battery

[Samuel Held <Held@rhip.phys.utk.edu>]

Sharon,
	Well, I know taht it can't be A because that is the symbol for
the vector potential.  However, maybe it goes along well with the
magnetic field in material being H and electric field in material being
D??  Interesting question?  Any physics history buffs out there know the
answer?


Sam Held


-----Original Message-----
From: Sharon [mailto:sksst4@vms.cis.pitt.edu]
Sent: Monday, October 12, 1998 7:45 PM
To: phys-l@atlantis.uwf.edu
Subject: Re: B battery


And speaking of B... does anyone know why the B-field is a B-field
instead
of an M-field or A-field or something else?

> Does anyone know the story or reason why there are D,C, AA, AAA size
> batteries but "B" was either skipped or not produced anymore?  My
> students were asking and I did not have a clue.
>
> Thanks
>
> Pete Joenks
>
> Springdale High School
> Springdale, Arkansas


Sharon Schulze
sksst4@vms.cis.pitt.edu
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