Units of Measurement Past, Present and Future. International System of Units /

• Main Author: Gupta, S. V. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Series: Springer Series in Materials Science, 122
• Subjects: Physics.; Physical measurements.; Measurement.; Engineering.; Materials science.; Measurement Science and Instrumentation.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.; Engineering, general.

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 exa...