In: Physics
which are the basic quantities? list them and include their international standard units
Base quantity | Base unit | Definition |
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Time | second | The second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium-133 atom. |
Length | meter | The meter is the length of the path traveled by light in a vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second. |
Mass | kilogram | The kilogram is the unit of mass; it is equal to the mass of the international prototype of the kilogram. |
Electric current | ampere | The ampere is that constant current which, if maintained in two straight parallel conductors of infinite length, of negligible circular cross-section, and placed 1 meter apart in vacuum, would produce between these conductors a force equal to 2 × 10−7 newton per meter of length. |
Thermodynamic temperature | kelvin | The kelvin, unit of thermodynamic temperature, is the fraction 1/273.16 of the thermodynamic temperature of the triple point of water. |
Amount of substance | mole | The mole is the amount of substance of a system that contains as many elementary entities as there are atoms in 0.012 kilograms of carbon-12; the elementary entities must be specified and may be atoms, molecules, ions, electrons, other particles, or specified groups of such particles. |
Luminous intensity | candela | The candela is the luminous intensity, in a given direction, of a source that emits monochromatic radiation of frequency 540 × 1012 hertz and that has a radiant intensity in that direction of 1/683 watt per steradian |
they are:
Length
Mass
Time
Electric current
Temperature
Luminous intensity
Amount of substance