@Gnot Even
I think you may have misquoted. I never used the word ‘solenoid’ to describe this image.
And yes, I’m fully aware of the technical differences, as well as how pedantically different the engineering and physics fields treat the same subject matter.
Also, James Clerk Maxwell is one of my personal heroes. :3
I can’t overstate how much the EE in me absolutely LOVES this! 🥰
Pedant alert! An engineer typically wouldn’t call that a solenoid, altho a physicist would. To an engineer, a solenoid is device for converting eletricity into linear motion (as opposed to a motor, which is rotary motion). There would need to be something being moved by Starlight’s coils (possibly Twilight?) for an engineer to recognize it as a solenoid.
You can explicitly mark the subscripted part with [~ and ~] to override the parser’s decisions, and the same mechanism works for any formatting sequence, even inside words like h__ere__.
@Enter
B = μNI/l, where μ is the magnetic constant. (It’d be mu-sub-nought, but Derpi comments don’t get along with subscripts right next to other non-whitespace characters.)
You did describe yourself as an engineer, tho. And the image is tagged “solenoid”. So there’s at least a little relevance :-)
(I suspose I could figure out who tagged it, and go pedant at them…)
I think you may have misquoted. I never used the word ‘solenoid’ to describe this image.
And yes, I’m fully aware of the technical differences, as well as how pedantically different the engineering and physics fields treat the same subject matter.
Also, James Clerk Maxwell is one of my personal heroes. :3
Pedant alert! An engineer typically wouldn’t call that a solenoid, altho a physicist would. To an engineer, a solenoid is device for converting eletricity into linear motion (as opposed to a motor, which is rotary motion). There would need to be something being moved by Starlight’s coils (possibly Twilight?) for an engineer to recognize it as a solenoid.
Well that’s handy. Thanks for the tip!
Thanks both:)
Like this? (Click quote to see the exact code I typed.)
B = μ0NI/l
You can explicitly mark the subscripted part with [~ and ~] to override the parser’s decisions, and the same mechanism works for any formatting sequence, even inside words l
ike h__ere__.@Enter
B = μNI/l, where μ is the magnetic constant. (It’d be mu-sub-nought, but Derpi comments don’t get along with subscripts right next to other non-whitespace characters.)
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