Re: B versus H

[frank cange <cangefrank@HOTMAIL.COM>]

david:
  if you can remember the name of the book where you read of the origin of
the variable B for magnetic field please email it. thanks!
frank cange


> From: "David T. Marx" <dtmarx@SIU.EDU>
> Reply-To: "phys-l@lists.nau.edu: Forum for Physics Educators"
> <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
> To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
> Subject: Re: B versus H
> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 11:55:45 -0500
>
> You guys have moved away from the spirit of the original question:
> How did B and H come to be called B and H?
>
> I remember reading about this a few years ago, but I no longer have the
> book.  I would be interested in having my memory refreshed without a
> digression into the proper wording - just for once on this list.
>
>
>
> > >
> > >[Similar remarks apply to the conflicting technical definitions of
> "heat".]
> >
> > Some people keep baiting us:  There is no self-consistent "technical
> > definition" of anything called "heat" -- at least one that I have ever
> seen.
> >
> >
> > Jim Green
> > mailto:JMGreen@sisna.com
> > http://users.sisna.com/jmgreen

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