Recent content by crwilliams

You are of course correct. After a couple of hours reflecting on this I came to this understanding. The widespread use of SI units in general, and in electrical engineering in particular (electrical engineers being amongst the first to embrace SI units) lies in the observation that B =...

As I recall, though, the cgs units for electrostatic quantities are not the same as the units for electromagnetic quantities.

Sorry - this is a thread hijack - but from where do you get the symbols for pi, epsilon sub zero, etc. and how do you insert them in a post? Thanks.

The originator of the SI units was Prof. Giovanni Giorgi who proposed the metre, kilogram, second, and ampere as the four fundamental units (since increased to 7). In particular, he originated the 'rationalised' concept of dealing with the pi (constant) in such a way that the pi appeared in...