Magnetism and Its Humours
May. 30th, 2011 09:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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brotherguy's blog, he mentioned a transoceanic interview where the journalist heard a word different from the one Guy thought he'd pronounced:
when the author refers to my work measuring "meteorites and their physical properties, including density and magnetic ferocity..."
There are so many oddly-named properties associated with magnetism that the existence of "ferocity" would not surprise me.
Reluctance. Flux. Permeance. Intrinsic moment. Inductive reactance.* Hysteresis. Barkhausen jumps. And what my Finnish E&M professor kept referring to as "suskeptibility."
It all sounds like a medieval physician wrestling with a difficult diagnosis.
* Accompanied by the fabulous Frequency-Reactance Nomograph, which might make a nice pattern for a kilt.
(Promoted frombrotherguy's comments section.)
brotherguy's blog, he mentioned a transoceanic interview where the journalist heard a word different from the one Guy thought he'd pronounced: when the author refers to my work measuring "meteorites and their physical properties, including density and magnetic ferocity..."
There are so many oddly-named properties associated with magnetism that the existence of "ferocity" would not surprise me.
Reluctance. Flux. Permeance. Intrinsic moment. Inductive reactance.* Hysteresis. Barkhausen jumps. And what my Finnish E&M professor kept referring to as "suskeptibility."
It all sounds like a medieval physician wrestling with a difficult diagnosis.
* Accompanied by the fabulous Frequency-Reactance Nomograph, which might make a nice pattern for a kilt.
(Promoted from
brotherguy's comments section.)
