Friday, September 11, 2015

SYSTEMS OF UNITS

A system of units is a complete set of units including both fundamental and derived physical quantities. There are some such systems which are given below;

FPS: It is the British Engineering system of units which uses foot(ft), pound(lb), and second(s) as the fundamental units of length, mass and time respectively.

CGS: This is also known as Gaussian system of units which uses centimeter(cm), gram(g) and second(s) the fundamental units of length, mass and time respectively.

MKS: It uses metre(m), kilogram(kg) and second(s) as the fundamental units of length, mass and time respectively.

SI SYSTEM: This system contains seven fundamental units and two supplementary fundamental units.

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