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The car is powered by two modified JCB 444 diesel power plants using a two-stage turbocharger to generate 750 bhp (560 kW), one engine driving the front wheels and the other the rear wheels. On 22 August 2006 the Dieselmax, driven by Andy Green , broke the diesel engine land speed record, attaining a speed of 328.767 mph (529.099 km/h).
The other units of length and mass, and all units of area, volume, and derived units such as density were derived from these two base units. Mesures usuelles ( French for customary measures ) were a system of measurement introduced as a compromise between the metric system and traditional measurements.
JCB (heavy equipment manufacturer), a British manufacturer of heavy industrial and agricultural vehicles JCB (callsign JAYSEEBEE; ICAO airline code JCB); see List of airline codes (J) JCB (credit card company), originally Japan Credit Bureau, a credit card company based in Tokyo, Japan; JCB (wine label), a wine label by vinter Jean-Charles Boisset
Avoirdupois is a system of mass based on a pound of 16 ounces, while Troy weight is the system of mass where 12 troy ounces equals one troy pound. The symbol g 0 is used to denote standard gravity in order to avoid confusion with the (upright) g symbol for gram.
historical definitions of the units and their derivatives used in old measurements; e.g., international foot vs. US survey foot. For some purposes, conversions from one system of units to another are needed to be exact, without increasing or decreasing the precision of the expressed quantity.
The CGS system had two units of energy, the erg that was related to mechanics and the calorie that was related to thermal energy; so only one of them (the erg) could bear a coherent relationship to the base units. Coherence was a design aim of SI, which resulted in only one unit of energy being defined – the joule. [20]
When that multiplier is one, the unit is called a coherent derived unit. For example, the coherent derived SI unit of velocity is the metre per second, with the symbol m/s. [1]: 139 The base and coherent derived units of the SI together form a coherent system of units (the set of coherent SI units). A useful property of a coherent system is ...
Giorgi later identified the need for an electrical base unit, for which the unit of electric current was chosen for SI. Another three base units (for temperature, amount of substance, and luminous intensity) were added later. [1] The early metric systems defined a unit of weight as a base unit, while the SI defines an analogous unit of mass.