Newsgroups: sci.electronics Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Tesla vs gauss, and other obscure units Message-ID: <1989Nov2.024305.10583@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <30339@buckaroo.mips.COM> <1914@sactoh0.UUCP> <5817@shlump.nac.dec.com> <14184@jumbo.dec.com> <30542@buckaroo.mips.COM> Date: Thu, 2 Nov 89 02:43:05 GMT In article <30542@buckaroo.mips.COM> vaso@mips.COM (Vaso Bovan) writes: >For bonus points, explain why the CGS electromagnetic unit of capacitance >is the gigafarad. Now *there's* a filter capacitor! -- A bit of tolerance is worth a | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology megabyte of flaming. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu