APPLIED PHYSICS NOTES and EXAMPLES in SI Units for STUDENTS of NAUTICAL SCIENCE J. H. CLOUGH-SMITH, B.Sc. (Lond.) Extra-Master, F.R.LLN formerly Heal of the Department of Maite Statics and Deon ofthe School of Physial and Mathematical Sciences, Univers of Wales Institute of Sconce and Tecwology GLASGOW BROWN, SON & FERGUSON, LTD., Nauricat PUBLISHERS 52 Dannuey Sraert, G4l 2SGThe International System of Units (SI) ‘The name Systime International d’Unités (International System of Units), abbreviation in accordance with the French version, SI, is used for the coherently Organised system of units which is intended to be brought into general use over the next Few years. The title includes the base units, the supplementary SL units, derived SI units and decimal multiples and sub-multiples of these units. BASE UNITS OF SI ‘These are six in number, and are, with their correct abbreviations Unit of length . metre wm Unit of mass kilogramme (ke) Unit of time SL second) Unit of electric current ampere (4) Unit of thermo-dynamic temperature kelvin (K Unit of luminous intensity candela (ed) SUPPLEMENTARY UNITS ‘These are the SI units for plane angle, the radian (rad) and solid angle, the steradian (3), Nevertheless it Is acknowledged that degrees also will remain in general use for plane angles. DERIVED UNITS, ‘The expressions for the derived SI_units are stated in terms of the base units. For example, velocity is metres per second (rns): density is kilogranmmes,per cubic mete (helm, and so on, Other derived units have special names and! symbols allocated to them, many of waich are already familiar to the reader, as for example unit of work, oF éneray, the joule (J); eleetrle potential, the volt (V) ‘These, and others, wll be introduced in the text as we proceed, together with the standard abbreviations The standard abbreviations must be used at all times: In all caleulations, it is strongly recommended that the SI units themselves. or the derived units, be used and not the multiples or sub-multiples. (This is onlyMULTIPLES AND SUB-MULTIPLES APPLIED PHYSICS ‘repeating what we have more than once emphasised in the text itself, e.g. “work in kilogrammes and metres”, and so on.) Decimal multiples and sub-multiples are formed from the base unit by means of the prefixes given in the list below. Factor by which ant Base anit i mudiped Prefs Symtot ampere, metre 1 ea T ‘Poord ete io? Be é * “] tee ue rg Examples: 7 ais lon im) 102 heeto * iomete in) 10 foc ta mrosecond s) = imsgnot > tort dest a nds on lo? cent : Ios wal m tore mao n 10 mano fn 8 po fo into y to to 4 Many of the above are rarely used in ordinary work. The commoner ones should certainly be memorised.