greek letters in combined variable names (possibly drifting off-topic)

On 2/8/2013 12:45 PM, Bill Wood wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 11:38 -0800, Richard Fateman wrote:
>     . . .
>> If this is the only problem you find with using computer algebra to
>> express and
>> manipulate thermodynamics formulas for class, then you are doing well
>> indeed.
> This sounds interesting, Richard.  Are there particular features of
> standard thermodynamics notational conventions that clash with CAS
> systems?

I haven't looked specifically at thermodynamics in this context.  I was 
thinking
about problems I've had in other areas making the ordering of terms and such
look like the normal literature (specifically in mechanics, turbulence). 
But here's
an example from relativity:
Type into Maxima the equation

E=m*c^2   and you get

E=c^2*m

or type in F=m*a   and you get

F=a*m.

ETC.

Now can you get those forms to work out "correctly"?  Maybe you can hack
something in to Maxima.  Or you can leave it alone and hack the output TeX
before you put it into a paper.  Or you can do what I suggested regarding
DeltaU  or whatever it was.  Which is to tell your students to just suck 
it up.:)

RJF