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Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures
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Mankind has a fascination with measurement. Down the centuries we have produced
a plethora of incompatible and duplicatory systems for measuring everything from
the width of an Egyptian pyramid to the concentration of radioactivity near a
nuclear reactor and the value of the fine structure constant. With the
introduction first of the metric system and of its successor the Système
International d'Unités (SI), the scientific community has established a standard
method of measurement based on only seven core units.The ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF
SCIENTIFIC UNITS, WEIGHTS AND MEASURES converts the huge variety of units from
all over the world in every period of recorded history into units of the SI.
Featuring: * An A - Z of conversion tables for over 10,000 units of
measurements. * Tables of the fundamental constants of nature with their units.
* Listings of professional societies, and national standardization bodies for
easy reference. * An extensive bibliography detailing further reading on the
multifarious aspects of measurement and its units. This huge work is simply a
"must have" for any reference library frequented by scientists of any discipline
or by those with historical interests in units of measurement such as
archaeologists. SOME PRAISE FOR THE PREVIOUS EDITION: NEW SCIENTIST "If you tire
of flicking through piles of textbooks looking for the formulas for converting
noggins into litres or foot-pound-force per hour into megawatts, do not despair.
Chuck out the lot and buy SCIENTIFIC UNIT CONVERSION by Francois Cardarelli
which claims to contain every scientific unit ever used ... All weights,
volumes, powers, areas, field strengths - you name it, it's here. A gem for
engineers, scientists, historians, journalists ...

Table of Contents
List of Tables
1 Introduction 1
2 The International System of Units 3
3 Other Systems of Units 19
4 Conversion Tables 167
5 Fundamental Constants 771
6 Appendices 781
7 Bibliography 839

Product Details

* ISBN: 185233682X
* ISBN-13: 9781852336820
* Format: Paperback, 848pp
* Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
* Pub. Date: February 2003

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