Measure for measure : the story of imperial, metric, and other units / Alex Hebra.
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TextPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2003.Description: xiv, 215 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: - 0801870720
- 389/.1/09 21
- QC83 .H43 2003
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-210) and index.
Machine generated contents note: Preface ix --Acknowledgments xiii --1 Blessing Our Countings -- Units and Numbers 1 --2 Going to Great Lengths 23 --3 Degrees of Separation -- Angles and Solid Angles 35 --4 The "Obvious" Unit of Time 53 --5 Weighty Matters -- Of Mass and Force 61 --6 Gravimetric Standards 67 --7 The Matter with Mass 74 --8 Empire of Light -- Luminosity and Intensity 82 --9 Hot Stuff -- Temperature, Pressure, and Thermodynamics 98 --10 The Missing Link -- Energy 119 11 Compound Units --12 Invasion of Aliens and Nihilists --13 The Inter(galactic)net --14 Units, Physics, and Mathematics --Appendix -- Conversion Tables --Suggested Reading --Bibliography --Index.
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