On Thursday, Apr 15, 2004, at 07:38 US/Pacific, D. Jay Newman wrote:

>>  'E' represents "Electromotive  Force", 'I' represents "Intensity" of
>> the current flowing, and of course  'R' represents "resistance".
>
> I was wondering why I and E were used for current and voltage. This
> makes sense now.
>
Hmm.  Was the original language actually english?  Ohm was german...

BillW

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