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| skailup |
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Often, the letter P is used to designate force. I wonder what P is
abbreviated from.
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| Mark Thorson |
| Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 6:14 pm |
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skailup wrote:
Quote: Often, the letter P is used to designate force. I wonder what P is
abbreviated from.
Phorce.
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| jbuch |
| Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 10:43 pm |
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skailup wrote:
Quote: Often, the letter P is used to designate force. I wonder what P is
abbreviated from.
Thank you.
Push....
You will also find that P stands for momentum too. P=MV.
Jim
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| Steve Roberts |
| Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 10:31 am |
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"skailup" <skailup@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Quote: Often, the letter P is used to designate force. I wonder what P is
abbreviated from.
Associated with an arrow on a diagram it probably means either "Push here"
or "Pull here". Or maybe "Prod here" or "Poke this bit", or for dynamic
loads "POW!".
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| William Kaukler |
| Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2003 4:57 pm |
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pounds
phorce
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| mullens |
| Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 3:50 pm |
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Poundal
An antique Imperial unit no longer used in England, but probably used by
Lockheed (and other US) Engineers when doing orbit calculations.
If my recollection serves me well, a force of one poundal will give a mass
of 1 pound an acceleration of 1 ft per second squared.
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| jbuch |
| Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 6:07 pm |
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The word "pound" itself comes from the Latin pendere, to weigh.
So, perhaps P comes from pendere as weight. Just to propogate this on to
examine all potential principles (there are 3 "P" words in this sentence).
I seem to remember that the symbol P tended to be associated with
weight. F for force was for animals and machines pushing in directions
often other than the local direction of gravity forces.
mullens wrote:
Quote: Poundal
An antique Imperial unit no longer used in England, but probably used by
Lockheed (and other US) Engineers when doing orbit calculations.
If my recollection serves me well, a force of one poundal will give a mass
of 1 pound an acceleration of 1 ft per second squared.
skailup wrote:
Often, the letter P is used to designate force. I wonder what P is
abbreviated from.
Thank you.
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| Polywitts |
| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 10:32 pm |
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skailup@hotmail.com (skailup) wrote:
Quote: Often, the letter P is used to designate force. I wonder what P is
abbreviated from.
Thank you.
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| Brendan Hall |
| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 6:45 am |
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P is often used for pressure as well. A whole different meaning that. This
gave me great difficulty in my thesis, because I was using P for porosity,
then had to find another letter for atmospheric pressure.
Brendan Hall
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