No I'm not Jim, but I don't read the highly theoretical journals. Everything I read is applied or experimental, and that's all SI. A 300-level undergrad EM course I taught this spring was also SI. As I said in a post a couple minutes ago, I think it's purely a tool of the theoretical crowd to simplify their notation. Solving actual problems with it is going a little too far. Nat > Nat, I don't recall any AIP pubs that publish articles in esu/emu terms, > but of course I don't read all sections of physics. Are you aware of any > current usage of these in journal articles? > > Jim > > Nat Hager III wrote: > > > > > > > > On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, James R. Frysinger wrote: > > > > ... > > > > homework sets from the Princeton Physics Department that > have students > > > > calculate problems in electrostatic units (esu)! How archaic! > > > > ... > > > > > > Groth and Nice might be specialists in the field of > elementary particles, > > > and prefer to set as many fundamental constants equal to one > as possible > > > with esu and emu being the next best thing in their minds. > My uninformed > > > speculation, of course. > > > > > > > That's exactly the case Gene. My old grad text J.D. Jackson "Classical > > Electrodynamics", which I understand is still pretty much a > standard text, > > has a section on units in the back. They use esu units because > it allows a > > lot of recurring constants to be set equal to one, thus simplifying > > theoretical manipulation. It's purely a tool for equation > jockeys, ifp isn't > > involved in any way. > > > > Nat > > -- > Metric Methods(SM) "Don't be late to metricate!" > James R. Frysinger, CAMS http://www.metricmethods.com/ > 10 Captiva Row e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Charleston, SC 29407 phone/FAX: 843.225.6789 > > >
