Deluged by responses to his request for your favourite units, Robert P Crease discovers that non-SI units persist, and are sometimes even popular, among the physics community Setting the standard ...

Nick van Remortel demystifies natural unit systems — and advises what to do when you see a mass expressed in GeV. Several unit systems for describing the natural world exist. The International System ...

Units and Measurements Class 11 Revision Notes: The Units and Measurements chapter in CBSE Class 11 deals with the concepts of physical quantities, units, systems of units, and measurements. The ...

As ever more digital data is created and stored, the world needs more unit measurements to keep up with the ever-expanding numbers. To do so, the 27th General Conference on Weights and Measures on ...

SEVERAL years ago, Prof. Giovanni Giorgi, professor of mathematical physics in the University of Palermo, proposed a new system of electrical units. At a meeting of a section of the Advisory Committee ...