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  2. Dimensional analysis - Wikipedia

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    Although Maxwell defined length, time and mass to be "the three fundamental units", he also noted that gravitational mass can be derived from length and time by assuming a form of Newton's law of universal gravitation in which the gravitational constant G is taken as unity, thereby defining M = T −2 L 3. [14]

  3. SI base unit - Wikipedia

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    mass "The kilogram, symbol kg, is the SI unit of mass. It is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the Planck constant h to be 6.626 070 15 × 10 −34 when expressed in the unit J s, which is equal to kg m 2 s −1, where the metre and the second are defined in terms of c and ∆ν Cs." [1] The mass of one litre of water at the ...

  4. List of metric units - Wikipedia

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    The svedberg (S or Sv) is a unit of time used in chemistry equal to one hundred femtoseconds (100 fs). The shake is a unit of time used in nuclear physics equal to ten nanoseconds (10 ns). The sigma is a unit of time equal to one microsecond (1 μs). The jiffy is sometimes used to mean a unit of time of 10 ms. [dubious – discuss]

  5. Centimetre–gram–second system of units - Wikipedia

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    The CGS system goes back to a proposal in 1832 by the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss to base a system of absolute units on the three fundamental units of length, mass and time. [4] Gauss chose the units of millimetre, milligram and second. [5]

  6. Linear density - Wikipedia

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    Consider a long, thin rod of mass and length .To calculate the average linear mass density, ¯, of this one dimensional object, we can simply divide the total mass, , by the total length, : ¯ = If we describe the rod as having a varying mass (one that varies as a function of position along the length of the rod, ), we can write: = Each infinitesimal unit of mass, , is equal to the product of ...

  7. Fourier number - Wikipedia

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    The Fourier number can be derived by nondimensionalizing the time-dependent diffusion equation.As an example, consider a rod of length that is being heated from an initial temperature by imposing a heat source of temperature > at time = and position = (with along the axis of the rod).

  8. Foot–pound–second system of units - Wikipedia

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    The electrostatic and electromagnetic systems are derived from units of length and force, mainly. As such, these are ready extensions of any system of containing length, mass, time. Stephen Dresner [7] gives the derived electrostatic and electromagnetic units in both the foot–pound–second and foot–slug–second systems. In practice, these ...

  9. Orders of magnitude (mass) - Wikipedia

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    Speculated approximate lower limit of the mass of a primordial black hole: 1.5 × 10 −8 kg: US RDA for vitamin D for adults [46] ~2 × 10 −8 kg Uncertainty in the mass of the International Prototype of the Kilogram (IPK) (±~20 μg) [47] 2.2 × 10 −8 kg Planck mass, [48] can be expressed as the mass of a 2 Planck Length radius black hole ...