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Physics Name

 

Your physics name is your initials expressed as the physical quantities for which the letters stand. Does your physics name contain truths about your nature or destiny? I’ll consult my horoscope to find the answer. Below are selected possible physics names of the major candidates for President of the United States in 2012, followed by the key to use to determine your physics name. For example, if your initials were “I. M.,” you would find I = current or intensity, and M = mass. Your physics name would be “Current Mass” or “Intensity Mass.”

 

Barack Hussein Obama II—Magnetic Field Hamiltonian Order II

Willard Mitt Romney—Work Mass Resistance

Richard John Santorum—Resistance Current Density Action

Ronald Ernest Paul—Resistance Energy Power

Newton Leroy Gingrich—Particle Number Inductance Gravitational Constant or Particle Number Inductance Gibbs Free Energy

James Richard Perry—Current Density Resistance Power

Jon Meade Huntsman, Jr.—Current Density Mass Hamiltonian, Jr.

Charles Elson Roemer III—Capacitance Energy Resistance III

 

A—vector potential, area, or amplitude

B—magnetic field

C—heat capacity or capacitance

D—density of states

E—energy or electric field

F—force or Helmholtz free energy

G—gravitational constant or Gibbs free energy

H—enthalpy or Hamiltonian

I—current or intensity

J—current density

K—Kelvin

L—inductance, angular momentum, or Lagrangian

M—mass

N—particle number

O—order

P—power

Q—heat or electric charge

R—resistance or gas constant

S—entropy or action

T—temperature or period

U—potential energy or internal energy

V—voltage or volume

W—work

X—extensive parameter

Y—spherical harmonic

Z—impedance or partition function

 

 

Note that since initials are in upper case, no physical quantities represented by lower case letters, such as momentum (p) and position (x), are used. Mass is sometimes represented by a capital em, especially when two masses appear in the same equation.

 

References

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_variables (accessed 1/8/12)

Callen, Herbert B. (1985). Thermodynamics and an introduction to thermostatistics, 2nd ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Halliday, David; Resnick, Robert; and Walker, Jearl (2005). Fundamentals of physics, 7th ed. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Liboff, Richard L. (1992). Introductory quantum mechanics, 2nd ed. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_letters_used_in_mathematics (accessed 1/8/12)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_(physics) (accessed 1/8/12)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama (accessed 1/8/12)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney (accessed 1/8/12)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santorum (accessed 1/8/12)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul (accessed 1/8/12)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich (accessed 1/8/12)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Perry (accessed 1/9/12)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Huntsman,_Jr. (accessed 1/9/12)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Roemer (accessed 1/9/12)

 

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