The reform of the international system of units (SI) : philosophical, historical and sociological issues /: philosophical, historical and sociological issues. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Nadine De Courtenay, Olivier Darrigol, Oliver Schlaudt.
• Editors: Courtenay, Nadine de; Darrigol, Olivier; Schlaudt, Oliver
• Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. The origins of the Metre Convention, the SI and the development of modern metrology; 3. Justifying and motivating an SI for all people for all time; 4. Reforming the International System of Units: On our way to redefine the base units solely from fundamental constants and beyond; 5. Strategies for the definition of a system of units; 6. Relations between units and relations between quantities; 7. On the Conceptual Nature of the Physical Constants; 8. And how experiments Begin: The International Prototype Kilogram and the Planck Constant; 9. The SI and the Problem of Spatiotemporal Constancy
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 389.16; Metric system; Metric system -- Philosophy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351048965
• Related ISBNs: 9781351048972; 9781351048958; 9781351048989
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