Re: CHAT: Need a word for these!

--- In conlang@y..., John Cowan <jcowan@R...> wrote:

> > To take a contrived example, if I give you "U", "R" and "I", what do you think
> > of? Well, my engineering trained brains immediately recognises Ohm's Law: U=RI.
I get "Uri", one of the three original cantons of Switzerland.  =P


> Why U for voltage/electromotive force?
My guess would be so as not to confound it with the unit 1 V = 1 Volt.
A string like U = 2 V is much clearer than V = 2 V...  Furthermore,
U is close enough to V to give mnemonic assistance, while being
relatively rarely used for any other physical values.


-- Christian Thalmann