Guide for the Use of the International System of Units (SI)

Download or read book Guide for the Use of the International System of Units (SI) written by Barry Taylor and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1995-11 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A basic introduction to the metric system. Covers: the three classes of SI units & the SI prefixes; units outside the SI; rules & style conventions for printing & using units; rules & style conventions for expressing values of quantities; comments on some quantities & their units; rules & style conventions for spelling unit names; printing & using symbols & numbers in scientific & technical documents; & check list for reviewing manuscripts. Appendix: definitions of SI base units & the radian & Steradian; conversion factors, & comments on the references of the SI for the U.S. Extensive bibliography.