A system of units compatible with geometry

• Authors: Bernard Jancewicz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Alternative system of fundamental units: length, time, action, electrical charge is presented instead of the present one: length, time, mass and electrical current. It contains more quantities which are scalars under scalings. Then it is possible to recognize from the unit, what kind of a geometric quantity is a given physical quantity. This is the reason why the new system of units is called compatible with geometry.

Keywords

EN

System of units; fundamental units; multivectors; 02.40Ma; 06.20Fn

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Physics
• Year: 2004
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 204-219

Dates

published

1 - 3 - 2004

online

1 - 3 - 2004

Contributors

author

Bernard Jancewicz

• Institute of Theoretical Physics, Wrocław University, pl. Maksa Borna 9, PL-50-204, Wrocław

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/BF02476281