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  title info:
    title: Units of Measurement
    sub title: Past, Present and Future. International System of Units
  name:
    name part: Gupta, S. V.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVIII, 158 p. 32 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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 trends to redefine the base Kilogram, Ampere, Kelvin and Mole on existing base units of mass, electric current, temperature and amount of substance, in terms of a single parameter or fundamental constants are briefly described.
  table of contents: Metrology Through Ages -- System of Quantities and Units -- Various Systems of Units -- Metre Convention and Evolution of Base Units -- Realization of Base Units -- Derived Quantities and Their Units -- Expressing SI Units -- Future Definitions of SI Units -- Scientists Associated with Units of Measurements.
  note: by S. V. Gupta.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Physical measurements
  subject:
    topic: Measurement
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Materials science
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Measurement Science and Instrumentation
  subject:
    topic: Characterization and Evaluation of Materials
  subject:
    topic: Engineering, general
  classification: T50
  classification: 530.8
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Springer Series in Materials Science, 122
  identifier: 9783642007385
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00738-5
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151030001456.0
    record identifier: 978-3-642-00738-5