Constants

The following mathematical and physical constants are available through the h module:

h.PI        3.14159265358979323846

h.E         2.71828182845904523536

h.GAMMA     0.57721566490153286060 (Euler)

h.DEG       57.29577951308232087680 (deg/radian)

h.PHI       1.61803398874989484820 (golden ratio)

h.FARADAY   96484.56 (coulombs/mole) (legacy value)
h.FARADAY   96485.3321233100141 (modern value. derived from mole and electron charge)

h.R         8.31441 (molar gas constant, joules/mole/deg-K) (legacy value)
h.R         8.3144626181532395 (modern value. derived from boltzmann constant and mole)

h.Avogadro_constant  6.02214076e23 (codata2018 value, introduced version 8.0)

As of Version 8.0 (circa October, 2020) modern units are the default. See nrnunit_use_legacy()

Warning

Constants are not treated specially by the interpreter and may be changed with assignment statements. However a change of FARADAY, R, or Avogadro_constant generate a warning message (default once). Python warning messages can be managed with import warnings; warnings.filterwarnings(action) where useful actions are "error", "ignore", "always", or "once". If assignment takes place due to execution of a hoc interpreter statement, the warning occurs only once but cannot be avoided.

The legacy FARADAY is a bit different than the legacy faraday of the units database. The legacy faraday in a .mod mechanism is 96520.