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Meaning of W in SFPW, or a synonym that starts with a W

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00:00 Meaning Of W In Sfpw, Or A Synonym That Starts With A W
01:51 Answer 1 Score 10
02:07 Accepted Answer Score 5
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ANSWER 1

Score 10


Since Bosch Rexroth sounds decidedly German, I would think that the W stands for Wahrscheinlichkeit (German for probability), which answers your first question, but doesn't really help with your second, unfortunately.




ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 5


W is commonly used for probability in physics. It comes, as speculated earlier, from the German language because of the high number of German physicists. For example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann%27s_entropy_formula

"The value of W was originally intended to be proportional to the Wahrscheinlichkeit (the German word for probability) of a macroscopic state for some probability distribution of possible microstates ..."