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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: History and Measurement of the Base and Derived Units
  name:
    name part: Treese, Steven A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 1121 p. 89 illus., 80 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book discusses how and why historical measurement units developed, and reviews useful methods for making conversions as well as situations in which dimensional analysis can be used. It starts from the history of length measurement, which is one of the oldest measures used by humans. It highlights the importance of area measurement, briefly discussing the methods for determining areas mathematically and by measurement. The book continues on to detail the development of measures for volume, mass, weight, time, temperature, angle, electrical units, amounts of substances, and light intensity. The seven SI/metric base units are highlighted, as well as a number of other units that have historically been used as base units. Providing a comprehensive reference for interconversion among the commonly measured quantities in the different measurement systems with engineering accuracy, it also examines the relationships among base units in fields such as mechanical/thermal, electromagnetic and physical flow rates and fluxes using diagrams. .
  table of contents: Preface -- Measurement Perspectives -- Interconversion of Units -- Metric and U.S. Customary/English Systems -- Historical Length or Distance -- Historical Area -- Historical Volume or Capacity -- Historical Weight and Mass -- Historical Time -- Historical Temperature -- Historical Angular Measurement -- Historical Electrical Charge and Current Measurement -- Historical Amounts of Substances -- Historical Luminous Intensity -- From Base Units to Derived Units -- Common Modern Conversions.
  note: by Steven A. Treese.
  subject:
    topic: Physical measurements
  subject:
    topic: Measurement
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Measurement Science and Instrumentation
  subject:
    topic: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  subject:
    topic: History of Mathematical Sciences
  classification: T50
  classification: 530.8
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319775777
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77577-7
  record info:
    record creation date: 180517
    record change date: 20191022042639.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-77577-7