Scientific Unit Conversion
Subtitle: A Practical Guide to Metrication
By: by François Cardarelli
Contributors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Published: 1997
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9781447133940
Subjects: Chemistry/Food Science, general; Civil engineering; Physics, general; Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering; Medicine/Public Health, general; Computer engineering; Chemical engineering; Medicine; Electrical engineering; Chemistry; Physics
Description: This unique and detailed guide gives accurate metric equivalents and conversion factors for more than 10,000 scientific units as well as detailed descriptions of over 2,000. It covers the full range of science, technology and medicine and deals with US customary, British, conventional metric, historic systems and SI units. One section allows a search by application area while another details mathematical and physical constants. Appendices contain lists of national and international standardization organizations and there is also an English-French lexicon of terms. A detailed bibliography completes this comprehensive guide. The pocket book format has been chosen for its compact size whilst the structure of the book is intended to make it as accessible as possible. Full use is made of easily referenced conversion charts and tables. Scientific Unit Conversion will be invaluabl e for working scientists, students and libraries.
Table of contents: title: 1 Introduction; title: 1.1 Why a Conversion Handbook?; title: 1.2 How to Use This Book; title: 2 The International System of Units; title: 2.1 History; title: 2.2 The General Conference on Weights and Measures; title: 2.3 Organization of the SI; title: 2.4 SI Prefixes; title: 3 Other Systems of Units; title: 3.1 MTS, MKpS, MKSA; title: 3.2 Cgs, Gauss, IEUS, a. u; title: 3.3 British and American Systems of Units; title: 3.4 The Foot-Pound-Second (FPS) System; title: 3.5 Ancient and Obsolete Systems of Weights and Measures; title: 4 Conversion Tables; title: 4.1 Units in Alphabetical Order; title: 4.2 Conversion Tables Listed by Physical Quantities; title: 5 Fundamental Constants; title: 5.1 Fundamental Mathematical Constants; title: 5.2 Fundamental Physical Constants; title: 6 Appendices; title: 6.1 Greek Alphabet; title: 6.2 Roman Numerals; title: 6.3 Rules about Large Numbers (1000000); title: 6.4 Date and Time Numerical Representation; title: 6.5 National, Regional, and International Standardization Bodies; title: 6.6 Acceleration Due to Gravity at Any Latitude and Elevation; title: 6.7 International Practical Temperature Scale (IPTS, 1968); title: 6.8 French-English Lexicon for Units; title: 6.9 French-English Lexicon for Physical Quantities; title: 6.10 Old Alchemical Symbols Used in Astronomy, Chemistry, and Biology; title: 6.11 Old Symbols Used in the British System; title: 7 Bibliography; title: 7.1 Specific References; title: 7.2 References about the Metric System and the SI; title: 7.3 References of General Interest; title: 7.4 Historical References; title: 7.5 International and National Standards.