Nerds, Know Your Greek!

Recently at one of the lectures, the lecturer couldn't figure out the correct pronunciation for a certain Greek alphabet which is shaped like an inverted L. Well, it was actually the capital gamma. In electromagnetics theory, it is used as the reflection coefficient in transmission lines. I'm not very sure what my lecturer said of it, but I'm sure he got it wrong. Heheh. Sorry Monsieur Naufal !

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If you're a science student, it is a MUST for you to be familiar with these Greek letters. I've met most of them in the textbooks that I've been reading except maybe for iota. It's quite unfamiliar to me. Hehe. Try this quiz and test your Greek alphabets! If you're unfamiliar with them, no harm in learning, no? Good luck! To learn about how to pronounce these alphabets, go here. Even though there are conventional pronunciations, it is actually up to you (or your lecturer) on how you pronounce or write it. Science people like to invent new things.

Oh.. here's my score for the quiz.


And guess which letter that I got wrong? Gamma!! How ironic.. teacher and student both confused with Gamma. Haha. And shamefully, I've come across it in the same subject. It gives the name to a unit of magnetic flux density, which is equivalent to 1 nanoTesla. WTF. Aku dah blaja kot!! Or was my brain elsewhere in class? Hmmm..

p/s Check out my group's project for Electromagnetics Theory.