Defining and measuring nature : the make of all things

• Tác giả: Jeffrey H Williams
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-0750331418
• ISBN-13: 978-0750331425
• ISBN-13: 978-0750331432
• ISBN-13: 978-0750331449
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 530.81 Physical units and constants
• Thông tin xuất bản: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, 2020
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (various pagings) : , illustrations (some color).
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 161012
• Chủ đề: 1. Measurement--History; 2. Metric system--History; 3. Weights and measures--History; 4. Mensuration & systems of measurement; 5. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Measurement

Includes bibliographical references.

Tóm tắt

 Measurement forms an essential part of our view of the world. Our world is measured and calibrated, and we are all subject to the tyranny of these numbers. In this updated and extended edition, Jeffrey Huw Williams outlines the history of measurement
  particularly of the International System of units (SI). Since the previous edition, the base units of the SI have been redefined
  realising a 150-year-old dream for a measurement system based on unchanging, fundamental quantities of nature. This change has created a new SI, a Quantum-SI, which will significantly change the way we look at nature in a quantitative manner, and greatly facilitate the advance of science.