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LETTER SYMBOLS
FOR USE IN
ELECTROTECHNOLOGY
Part 2—
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
AND ELECTRONICS
This standard, prepared by the Joint Telecommunications and Electronics and Electrical
Committee TE/13, Symbols, Units and Quantities for Electrotechnology, was approved
on behalf of the Council of the Standards Association of Australia on 4 August 1977,
and was published on 1 December 1978.
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This standard was issued in draft form for public review as DR 76041.
AS 1046, Part 2—1978
Australian Standard
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LETTER SYMBOLS
FOR USE IN
ELECTROTECHNOLOGY
Part 2—
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
AND ELECTRONICS
PREFACE
This standard was prepared by the Association’s This standard is closely aligned with IEC 27-2 and
Committee on Symbols, Units and Quantities for IEC 27-2A;. Acknowledgment is made of the
Electrotechnology under the authority of both the assistance received from this source. Like the
Telecommuncations and Electronics Standards Board international standards on this subject, the standard
and the Electrical Standards Board, as Part 2 of the lists both International System (SI) units and non-SI
standard on letter symbols. units likely to be met in text books and scientific
The purpose of this Part of the standard is to specify papers originating outside Australia. It is emphasized,
letter symbols for physical quantities used specifically however, that for future Australian use preference
in the telecommunications, electronics and related should be given to the units within the International
fields of electrotechnology and to specify System.
abbreviations and symbols for units for such For a fuller understanding of the symbols and
quantities. The standard defines rules for the methods adopted in this standard reference should be
application of such symbols and as such is an made to the following Australian standards:
extension of AS 1046, Part 1 — General, which covers
the general area of electrical technology. AS 1000 The International System of Units (SI) and
This Part 2 does not attempt to be exhaustive, but Its Application
covers the most commonly used fields of use listed in
the table of contents and extends these symbols by AS 1046 Letter Symbols for Use in Electro-
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CONTENTS
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SPECIFICATION 5.3 Impedance and Admittance at a
1 Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Point in a Substance . . . . . . . . . . . 15
2 Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 5.4 Impedance and Admittance at a
3 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Point in Vacuo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4 Tables for Letter Symbols and 5.5 Impedance and Admittance of a Wave-
Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
5 Preferred Symbols and Units . . . . . . 3 ANNEX 1. Survey of Impedances and
TABLES Admittances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
1 General Quantities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 6 Quantities Associated with Aerials
2 Quantities Concerning Two-port (Antennas) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 7 Quantities Specific to Electro-
3 Line Transmission Signals . . . . . . 10 acoustics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3.1 Letter Symbols For Line Trans- 8 Quantities for Use in Equivalent
mission of Signals (Including Cables) 10 Circuits of Piezoelectric Crystals . . 22
3.2 Subscripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 9 Letter Symbols for Scattering Matrix
and Transfer Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . 24
4 Radio Wave Propagation . . . . . . . 12 10 Symbols for Use in the Field of Static
4.1 Ground Wave Propagation . . . . . . 12 Convertors Using Tubes or Semi-
4.2 Tropospheric Propagation . . . . . . . 13 conductor Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
4.3 Ionospheric Propagation . . . . . . . . 13 10.1 Subscripts Which May be Added to
4.4 Radio Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 the Letter Symbols in Table 10.2 . . 25
5 Quantities Concerning Waveguide 10.2 List of Letter Symbols . . . . . . . . . 26
Propagation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 11 Symbols for Quantities Used in
5.1 Frequency and Wavelength in Wave- Automatic Control Science
guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 and Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
5.2 Characteristic and Normalized ANNEX 2. Functional Block Diagrams . . 30
Impedance and Admittance In
General (Unbounded Space, Wave- ANNEX 3. Denotation of some Math-
guide or Transmission Line) . . . . . 14 ematical Concepts . . . . . . . . . 31
Australian Standard
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LETTER SYMBOLS FOR USE IN ELECTROTECHNOLOGY
1 SCOPE. This standard specifies letter symbols for in this Part. Reference should be made to Part 1 for
physical quantities and abbreviations and symbols for this information.
units for use particularly in telecommunications and
electronics engineering. This standard supplements 4 TABLES FOR LETTER SYMBOLS AND
the symbols given in AS 1046, Part 1 — General. ABBREVIATIONS. The tables include in addition
2 APPLICATION. The recommendations in this to symbols and abbreviations specific to
standard on the use of symbols, alphabets and type telecommunications and electronic engineering, other
fonts relate specifically to printed matter. In written symbols and abbreviations used in these fields
and typewritten documents it is recommended that the although specific to other disciplines. In the interests
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choice of type be indicated by underlining with a of simplicity, the vectorial or tensorial character of
straight line for italic type and with a wavy line for certain quantities, or their complex representation,
bold type. may be disregarded.
In order to make the best use of the limited number 5 PREFERRED SYMBOLS AND UNITS. The
of readily available alphabets and fonts, it is preferred symbols for quantities are listed in the first
recommended that the general principles specified column after the name of the quantity. Reserve
internationally be adopted. symbols for use where the preferred symbol is
Even with the provisions made for the use of unsatisfactory, e.g. where confusion could arise with
different fonts, and cases, the number of distinctive a similar letter with a different significance, are listed
letter symbols available for use is insufficient to in the following column.
enable each physical quantity or unit to be allotted a Names are used only for identification and in general
unique symbol or abbreviation. Alternatives have agree with AS 1852, International Electrotechnical
therefore been allotted where a need for them is most Vocabulary. Should this name of a quantity or unit,
likely to arise or where alternative usage has been or its symbol or abbreviation vary from that listed in
firmly established. the international standard ISO/R31, this is indicated
The use of the preferred symbol or abbreviation is by a Note. Sometimes preference is given to a certain
strongly recommended. symbol in cases where ISO, by reasons of its
3. GENERAL. This standard extends the list of widespread use, has been unable to indicate a
symbols given for physical quantities and distinction between those listed.
abbreviations for symbols and units in AS 1046, The units that belong to the International System of
Part 1— General. The rules for choice of alphabet, Units (SI) shall be used in preference to others listed.
choice of type, treatment of vectors and combination Additional information on SI units is given in
of symbols as stated in that standard are followed AS 1000.
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