Thanks for doing that search, John. The weird units are due to leaving out the units for epsilon, as you said. Somehow I think that I'll get either no answer or a condescending one. Pretty sure that the composer wasn't who he meant though! ;-) Jim On Tuesday 17 July 2001 0007, kilopascal wrote: > 2001-07-16 > > I for sure was confused by the first part. In esu, is capacitance > measured in distance? His first example gives a "capacitance of 796 > cm. I know this means centimetres, as the formula he gives divides > area (100 mm) by the 4pi times the plate separation. In other words, > square centimetres divided by centimetres. .... > Other links were to a composer Henry Purcell (1659-1695) .... -- James R. Frysinger University/College of Charleston 10 Captiva Row Dept. of Physics and Astronomy Charleston, SC 29407 66 George Street 843.225.0805 Charleston, SC 29424 http://www.cofc.edu/~frysingj [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cert. Adv. Metrication Specialist 843.953.7644
