书目名称 | Units of Measurement | 副标题 | Past, Present and Fu | 编辑 | S. V. Gupta | 视频video | | 概述 | Explains the units in physics and engineering and the international system of units.Useful reference to researchers and engineers | 丛书名称 | Springer Series in Materials Science | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .It is for the first time that the subject of quantities and their respective units is dealt this much in detail, a glimpse of units of measurements of base quantities of length, time, mass and volume is given for ancient India, three and four dimensional systems of measurement units are critically examined, establishment of the fact that only four base units are needed to describe a system of units, the basics to arrive at the unit of a derived quantity are explained, basic, derived and dimensionless quantities including quantity calculus are introduced, life history of scientists concerned with measurements units are presented to be inspiring to working metrologists and students. The International System of Units including, Metre Convention Treaty and its various organs including International National of Weights and Measure are described. The realisation of base units is given in detail. Classes of derived units within the SI, units permitted for time to come, units outside SI but used in special fields of measurements are described. Methods to express large numbers are explained in detail. Multiples and sub-multiples prefixes and their proper use are also given. The latest tren | 出版日期 | Book 20101st edition | 关键词 | Biographie; Biographies of scientists concerned with units of measuremen; History of units in physics | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00738-5 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-642-26153-4 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-642-00738-5Series ISSN 0933-033X Series E-ISSN 2196-2812 | issn_series | 0933-033X | copyright | Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010 |
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