Scientific Unit Conversion: A Practical Guide to Metrication - Softcover

Cardarelli, Francois

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3540760229 ISBN 13: 9783540760221

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, 1996

Synopsis

This guide provides accurate metric equivalents and conversion factors for over 10,000 scientific units, as well as detailed descriptions of over 2000. It covers the full range of science, technology and medicine and deals with the US customary, British, conventional metric, historic systems and SI units. One section allows a search by application area, whilst another details mathematical and physical constants. Appendices contain lists of national and international standardization organizations and there is also an English-French lexicon of terms.

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From the reviews:

"Outstanding Title! ... Revised and expanded, this version of Cardarelli's Scientific Unit Conversion (3rd ed., 2002) is a comprehensive list of most scientific units, weights and measures, conversions, and definitions. Providing current and historical units from around the world, this book supplies alphabetically arranged conversion tables for more than 10,000 units of measurement....For archaeologists, historians, mathematicians, and scientists in any field. Summing Up: Essential. All collections."
(D. J. Turner, Choice, November 2003)

"All weights, volumes, powers, areas, field strengths ¿ You name it, it's here ¿ A gem for engineers, scientists, historians, journalists ¿" New Scientist

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540760229
• ISBN 13: 9783540760221
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 380