Just out of curiosity, for anyone who knows off the top of their head: which sources are that use the beta symbol for electrons, as opposed to e?
I know there is variation between like nuclear chemistry and physics and whatnot, but just at a brief glance I see the use of ‘e’ in UWorld:
Kaplan: CH9.4
I can write that 0/-1B = 0/-1e = an electron in the extra section if that completely clarifies it. For B+ decay I can write 0/1B = 0/1e = positron.
Looks like it’s torn: some use the beta symbol, others use the ‘e’.
This would be one of those cases where it would be really handy to see which one AAMC prefers.
I suppose the move would be to pick one or the other, and let’s include a note in the Extra field that the annotation can vary between sources, just for clarity since it seems very possible, if not plausible, that folks may see both.
Unfortunately haven’t come across it in the AAMC qpacks or FLs yet. Only ever seen these which aren’t helpful.
helpful.
Since KA and Kaplan go with 0/1B or 0/-1B Im thinking that should probably go in the text section then have a note that 0/-1B = 0/-1e = an electron.
Yeah, as long as we cover our bases should be fine. I can’t imagine it’s a huge source of potential confusion, but noting that both are used may save us some grief
I’ll add a note to reject this one then and I’ll resubmit. I don’t like working with mathjax and not submitting directly from anki. For whatever reason even when I copy mathjax directly from anki into here to vice versa sometimes it gets messed up. No idea how that makes any sense.