Re: B versus H

[Doug Craigen <dcc@ESCAPE.CA>]

> I remember reading about this a few years ago, but I no longer have the
> book.  I would be interested in having my memory refreshed without a
> digression into the proper wording - just for once on this list.

Nearly a decade of experience on this list suggests you will be waiting
a while...

I hadn't intended to go off on a wording tangent, its just that every EM
text I have from Jackson on down refers to H as the magnetic field and B
as something else. If we want to know why the letters H and B are used,
then it is likely important to know what title each letter refers to.
For all I know "B" is a reference to "flux" or "induction", not
"magnetic" - so that there is no reason to associate it with the title
"magnetic field".

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Doug Craigen
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