Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures - neues Buch

EAN (ISBN-13): 9781447100034
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Herausgeber: Springer London

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ISBN/EAN: 9781447100034

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Autor des Buches: cardarelli, gregor
Titel des Buches: encyclopaedia

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Autor/in: François Cardarelli
Titel: Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures - Their SI Equivalences and Origins
Verlag: Springer; Springer London
848 Seiten
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012-12-06
London; GB
Übersetzer/in: M.J. Shields (Englisch)
Sprache: Englisch
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1 Introduction.- 1.1 Why a Conversion Handbook?.- 1.2 How to Use This Book.- 2 The International System of Units.- 2.1 History.- 2.2 The General Conference on Weights and Measures.- 2.3 Organization of the SI.- 2.4 SI Prefixes.- 3 Other Systems of Units.- 3.1 MTS, MKpS, MKSA.- 3.2 Cgs, Gauss, IEUS, a.u.- 3.3 British and American Systems of Units.- 3.4 The Foot-Pound-Second (FPS) System.- 3.5 Ancient and Obsolete Systems of Weights and Measures.- 4 Conversion Tables.- 4.1 Units in Alphabetical Order.- 4.2 Conversion Tables Listed by Physical Quantities.- 5 Fundamental Constants.- 5.1 Fundamental Mathematical Constants.- 5.2 Fundamental Physical Constants.- 6 Appendices.- 6.1 Greek Alphaber.- 6.2 Roman Numerals.- 6.3 Rules about Large Numbers (> 1000 000).- 6.4 Date and Time Numerical Representation.- 6.5 National, Regional and International Standardization Bodies.- 6.6 Acceleration Due to Gravity at any Latitude and Elevation.- 6.7 International Practical Temperature Scale (IPTS, 1968).- 6.8 International Temperature Scale (ITS-90).- 6.9 French-English Lexicon for Units.- 6.10 French-English Lexicon for Physical Quantities.- 6.11 International Clothing and Shoe Sizes (US, UK, Europe, and Japan).- 6.12 Common Time Acronyms.- 6.13 Old Alchemical Symbols Used in Astronomy, Chemistry, and Biology.- 6.14 International Geological Time Scale.- 6.15 Old Symbols Used in the British System.- 6.16 Electromagnetic Spectrum.- 6.17 Standard Paper Sizes (ISO and US).- 6.18 International Country Code Designations.- 6.19 International Currency Codes.- 7 Bibliography.- 7.1 Specific References.- 7.2 References About the Metric System and the SI.- 7.3 References of General Interest.- 7.4 Historical References.- 7.5 International and National Standards.
Books even claiming to cover units and their interconversion are scarce and no other book does such a comprehensive job Puts a huge number of scientific and general unit conversions at the reader's fingertips in a user-friendly, thoroughly indexed guide Builds on the reputation of the popular previous editions, but beefed up with even more units and conversions Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras; This book will sell because everything that people do is measured in units of one type or another. Scientists use them all the time but they are also important in the study of history, geography and other academic disciplines as well as in the daily life of the more general reader.