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The name Systme International d'Units (International System of Units)) with the international abbreviation SI is a single international language of science and technology first introduced in 1960. SI is a coherent system based on the seven independent physical quantities (base units) and derived quantities (derived units). Note that since 1995 supplementary units have been abandoned and moved into the class of derived SI units.
Basic SI Units
Physical quantity length mass time electric current quantity symbol Basic SI Unit Symbol Unit Name m kg s A K mol cd
Table 1. SI base units. Other physical quantities are derived from the basic units. The derived SI units are obtained by the multiplication, division, integration and differentiation of the basic units without the introduction of any numerical factors. The system of units so derived is said to be coherent.
, , , , radian , steradian
The mole is the amount of substance of a system which contains as many elementary entities as there are atoms in 0.012 kilogram of carbon 12. When the mole is used, the elementary entities must be specified and may be atoms, molecules, ions, electrons, other particles or specified groups of such particle. In this definition, it is understood that the carbon 12 atoms are unbound, at rest and in their ground state. Luminous intensity: candela (cd) The candela is the luminous intensity, in a given direction, of a source that emits monochromatic radiation of frequency 540 x 1012 hertz and that has a radiant intensity in that direction of 1/683 watt per steradian.
derived CGS units with special names other non-SI units Constants Glossary of Units
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