Re: standard physics abbreviations

From: Gregory L. Hansen (glhansen_at_steel.ucs.indiana.edu)
Date: 02/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:40:50 +0000 (UTC)

In article <1108487166.657820.162660@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
 <etrtetrtwt@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Thanks for the response!
>
>Actually I am looking to use abbreviations in a project of mine on a
>microcontroller system where the display has a limited size and in
>serial printouts of limited length. The abbreviations are of course in
>the manual, but an international standard would be very helpful for
>such applications. Right?
>

Even without the manual, if I knew that one number will be torque and the
other number will be speed, I think I can make a fair guess which is Tq
and which is Sd. Or even just T and S, as long as you don't have a
temperature on the display, too. Some things, in their context, are easy
enough that you can just do it. Print the definitions (including units)
on a label fixed near the display if you're worried about it.

But that application is kind of specialized. I could see a standard, even
just a de facto standard, for symbols of torque and speed on displays of
limited size. But I wouldn't try to generalize it too much. 

-- 
"The polhode rolls without slipping on the herpolhode lying in the 
invariable plane." -- Goldstein, Classical Mechanics 2nd. ed., p207.

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