Text-book of general physics, for the use of colleges and scientific schools (1899)
Hastings, Charles Sheldon · Boston: Ginn & company · leaf 24
cient to express themeasurement of all physical quantities. When these meas-ures are so expressed they form what is known as an abso-lute system, and all units other than the fundamental aretermed derived units. The system in which the centimeter, the gram, and thesecond are selected as the… … Fig. 8. 14 MECHANICS. 12. Dimensions. — When it is desired to make a generalstatement of a concrete magnitude without explicit mentionof any unit, the numeric will be denoted by a small letterand the unit by a bracketed capital. Thus, any length maybe written l[L~\. The most general expression for…
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