Friday, October 18, 2013

Basic units

There are six fundamental units that are accepted. Every other unit is derived out of these.

Basic Quantity
Unit
Symbol
 Mass
Kilograms
 kg
Time
Seconds
s
Length
Meter
m
Thermodynamic temperature
Kelvin
K
Electric current
Ampere
A
Amount of substance
mole
mol
Luminous Intensity
Candela
cd

But two more units are there, which are fundamental, but are not considered so.

Quantity
Unit
Symbol
Plane angle
Radian
rad
Solid angle
Steradian
sr

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