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An alternate sign convention is to consider the work performed on the system by its surroundings as positive. This leads to a change in sign of the work, so that = +. This convention has historically been used in chemistry, and has been adopted by most physics textbooks. [25] [27] [28] [29]
The choices made may differ between authors. Disagreement about sign conventions is a frequent source of confusion, frustration, misunderstandings, and even outright errors in scientific work. In general, a sign convention is a special case of a choice of coordinate system for the case of one dimension.
The historical sign convention for the terms has been that heat supplied to the system is positive, but work done by the system is subtracted. This was the convention of Rudolf Clausius, [2] so that a change in the internal energy, , is written =.
Illustration of the "reference directions" of the current (), voltage (), and power () variables used in the passive sign convention.If positive current is defined as flowing into the device terminal which is defined to be positive voltage, then positive power (big arrow) given by the equation = represents electric power flowing into the device, and negative power represents power flowing out.
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One way, work is defined as the work done on the system, the other way it's the work done by the system. So it's not really a sign convention, but rather a convention as to what the symbols mean. TobiS 15:55, 2005 Jun 17 (UTC)
This is a table of Clebsch–Gordan coefficients used for adding angular momentum values in quantum mechanics.The overall sign of the coefficients for each set of constant , , is arbitrary to some degree and has been fixed according to the Condon–Shortley and Wigner sign convention as discussed by Baird and Biedenharn. [1]
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