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Thus, for example, the CGS unit of pressure, barye, is related to the CGS base units of length, mass, and time in the same way as the SI unit of pressure, pascal, is related to the SI base units of length, mass, and time: 1 unit of pressure = 1 unit of force / (1 unit of length) 2 = 1 unit of mass / (1 unit of length × (1 unit of time) 2)
One difference between the Gaussian and SI systems is in the factor 4π in various formulas that relate the quantities that they define. With SI electromagnetic units, called rationalized, [3] [4] Maxwell's equations have no explicit factors of 4π in the formulae, whereas the inverse-square force laws – Coulomb's law and the Biot–Savart law – do have a factor of 4π attached to the r 2.
In the cgs-emu system, the unit of electric current is the abampere. The unit of current in the Heaviside–Lorentz system doesn't have a special name. The other units in the cgs-esu and Gaussian systems related to the statampere are: statcoulomb – the charge that passes in one second through any cross-section of a conductor carrying a steady ...
Then the formula would be kg = h / 6.626 070 15 × 10 −34 ⋅m 2 ⋅s −1 ampere: Prior (1881): A tenth of the electromagnetic CGS unit of current. The [CGS] electromagnetic unit of current is that current, flowing in an arc 1 cm long of a circle 1 cm in radius, that creates a field of one oersted at the centre. [8] IEC
An abampere of current in a circular path of one centimeter radius produces a magnetic field of 2π oersteds at the center of the circle. The name abampere was introduced by Kennelly in 1903 as a short name for the long name (absolute) electromagnetic cgs unit of current that was in use since the adoption of the cgs system in 1875. [ 3 ]
Measure of a material's ability to conduct an electric current S/m L −3 M −1 T 3 I 2: scalar Electric potential: φ: Energy required to move a unit charge through an electric field from a reference point volt (V = J/C) L 2 M T −3 I −1: extensive, scalar Electrical resistance: R: Electric potential per unit electric current ohm (Ω = V/A ...
In terms of the Gaussian base units, it is 1 statC = 1 dyn 1/2 ⋅cm = 1 cm 3/2 ⋅g 1/2 ⋅s −1 . That is, it is defined so that the proportionality constant in Coulomb's law using CGS-ESU quantities is a dimensionless quantity equal to 1.
Conversions between units in the metric system are defined by their prefixes (for example, 1 kilogram = 1000 grams, 1 milligram = 0.001 grams) and are thus not listed in this article. Exceptions are made if the unit is commonly known by another name (for example, 1 micron = 10 −6 metre).