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Mar. 16, 2011 What is a farad anyway? That's easy, a farad is a coulomb per volt. A coulomb is a basic unit of electrical charge, and cannot be resolved into other units. However, more recent versions of the Metric System prefer to deal with amperes. For now, let's stick with coulombs. What is a volt then? That's easy too. A volt is a joule per coulomb. What then is a joule? That's easy too, A joule is a newton-meter. What then is a newton? That's also easy. A newton is a kilogram-meter per second squared. Now we have reduced it to entirely irresoluble, non-composite units. So we have: one newton = one kilogram-meter per second^2 one joule = one newton-meter = one kilogram-meter^2/second^2 one volt = one joule/coulonb = one kilogram-meter^2/coulomb-second^2 one farad = one coulomb/volt = one coulomb^2-second^2/kilogram-meter^2 In my own personal algebra for the Metric System, I have numerals with place-value, according to the following scheme: 1000 = kilogram (digit in the fourth place from the right) 100 = meter (digit in the third place from the right) 10 = second (digit in the second place from the right) 1 = coulomb (digit in the first place from the right) I have others too, for kelvin, candela, radian, steradian, mole and dollar, but for now let me just talk about the basic four that I have mentioned above. If such a numeral has two-digits, neither of which exceeds 5, it denotes a product of the powers expressed by the digits: 1100 = kilograms x meters 1200 = kilograms x meters^2 1300 = kilograms x meters ^3 If a unit is to be understood to be in the denominator, denoting division by a power, the digit is subtracted from 10, in the manner of a cologarithm, with the provision that it cannot go below 6. So we have: 1180 = kilogram-meter per second^2 = newton 1280 = kilogram-meter^2 per second^2 = newton-meter = joule 1289 = kilogram-meter^2 per coulomb-second^2 = volt 9822 = coulomb^2-second^2 per kilogram-meter^2 = farad Others in the series include: 91 = ampere 1270 = watt 1298 = ohm 1299 = weber 1099 = tesla 9812 = siemens 1208 = henry 1980 = pascal Other quantities expressible as compound units for which there are no one-word names include: 190 = meters per second (velocity) 180 = meters per second^2 (acceleration) 1190 = kilogram-meters per second (impulse) 9722 = farads per meter (permittivity) 1108 = henrys per meter (permeability) Why there are no names for these and similar units is unknown to me. I have many other units, involving temperature, luminosity, angular velopcity, etc., but these require numerals of five, six or more digits. For the purposes of this article, I have limited consideration to the basic four—kilograms, meters, seconds and coulombs. These numerals may be added or subtracted, and denote products and quotients, in logarithmic fashion. However, in adding, if one column goes above 9, we do not carry, we discard. In subtracting, if the subtrahend is greater than the minuend in any particular column, we borrow, not from the next column, but from thin air, thus: 1289 – 91 = 1298 (volts divided by amperes equals ohms) 1 – 1289 = 9822 (coulombs divided by volts equals farads) 1270 + 10 = 1280 (watt-seconds equals joules) 1180 – 200 = 1980 (newtons per square meter equals pascals) Take a look at the standard equivalences for farad at this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farad#Definition It's just so much more convenient to call a farad 9822 and to be able to use that number in the little algebra I have just outlined. In Nuu, my own language, I associate each digit with a consonant, thus: z(0), c(1), d(2), t(3), f(4), p(5), s(6), v(7), g(8), b(9). Substituting letters for digits, and inserting e's as filllers, I produce words like: begded—farad; cedgeb—volt; cezbeb—tesla. In such words, the whole composition of the unit is immediately manifest. The number of units is another matter. Thus we may use some notation like this: 9.81 (U 180) = 9.81 meters per second^2 ------------ About the author Thomas Keyes: I have written five books: ELEMENTS OF GRAMMAR and A SOJOURN IN ASIA (non-fiction); A TALE OF UNG, THE ENNUNMENT and GVAGMA (fiction). I have studied languages for years and traveled extensively on five continents. Visit my website here. Email: udikeyes@yahoo.com
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