[WAAAY OT]

[Murray Taylor]

Asked my father (who used to work for the standards lab at the
Electricity Trust of South Australia) and ..

He had no hesitation is saying it was Intensity.

He said the P was originally for Pressure and the I for Intensity.

He also said that some early PMG instruments, we would call them watt 
meters or Volt Amp meters, used to have two meters, one labelled
Pressure and the other Intensity.



Thats one for the trivia nights!
mjt



On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 10:43, Eric Crist wrote:
> That's it!  Reason for my question was that a buddy asked me as a trivia
> question.  Bet me $50 I couldn't figure it out (we both agreed any
> method I could use was OK) by the time he left for Vancouver, WA
> tomorrow morning.
> 
> Thanks guys.

> Eric F Crist
> President
> AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc
> (612) 998-3588
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Baron Fujimoto [mailto:baron at lava.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 7:45 PM
> > To: Eric Crist
> > Subject: RE: [WAAAY OT]
> >
> >
> > ahh, I didn't realize that's what you were asking.  I've seen
> > at least one reference that speculates that "I" was for
> > Intensity, though even there they acknowledge dispute over
> > the etymology.  I always just assumed it was a standard
> > chosen to minimize ambiguity with many other common physical
> > properties.
> >
>   http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_1/chpt_2/1.html
> 
> On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Eric Crist wrote:
> 
> : Thanks for all your responses, but I still don't have the information
> : I'm seeking.  The letter I in Ohm's Law is short for an english word,
> : such as E is short for Electromotive Force (or Voltage), and R is
> short
> : for Resistance.
> :
> :
> : > -----Original Message-----
> : > From: Luke [mailto:luked at pobox.com]
> : > Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 7:24 PM
> : > To: Eric Crist
> : > Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> : > Subject: Re: [WAAAY OT]
> : >
> : > > Anyone know what the ACTUAL definition/word for I in Ohm's
> : > Law is?  I
> : > > know:
> : > >
> : > > E= Electromotive Force
> : > > R= Resistance
> : > > I= ?  (I know it's amperage, but what does I mean?)
> : >
> : > Impedance
> 
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