Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site oddjob.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!oddjob!sra From: sra@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP (Scott Anderson) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: tesla -- a gauss by any other name Message-ID: <629@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Mar-85 23:35:57 EST Article-I.D.: oddjob.629 Posted: Sun Mar 10 23:35:57 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Mar-85 07:17:07 EST References: <131@azure.UUCP> <2436@nsc.UUCP>Reply-To: sra@oddjob.UUCP (Scott Anderson) Organization: U. Chicago: Astronomy & Astrophysics Lines: 15 Summary: > >BY the way, there is a unit of measurment called the 'Tesla' but I forgot >for the moment what it's for. Anyone remember? > The tesla (T) is the unit of magnetic induction or magnetic flux density in the SI system of measurement. A charge of one coulomb moving at one meter per second perpendicular to a magnetic field of strength 1 T will experience a force of one newton. The tesla is a very large unit; the largest man-made magnets are on the order of 10 T. The more common unit is the gauss; 1 T = 10**4 G. Scott Anderson ihnp4!oddjob!kaos