What P stand for?

Phorce.

You're welqome. :-)

Push....

You will also find that P stands for momentum too. P=MV.

Jim

Associated with an arrow on a diagram it probably means either "Push here" or "Pull here". Or maybe "Prod here" or "Poke this bit", or for dynamic loads "POW!".

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Dr. K

Poundal An antique Imperial unit no longer used in England, but probably used by Lockheed (and other US) Engineers when doing orbit calculations.

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The word "pound" itself comes from the Latin pendere, to weigh.

So, perhaps P comes from pendere as weight. Just to propogate this on to examine all potential principles (there are 3 "P" words in this sentence).

I seem to remember that the symbol P tended to be associated with weight. F for force was for animals and machines pushing in directions often other than the local direction of gravity forces.

mullens wrote:

P is often used for pressure as well. A whole different meaning that. This gave me great difficulty in my thesis, because I was using P for porosity, then had to find another letter for atmospheric pressure.

Brendan Hall