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Si Base Units

The 7 SI base units are the kilogram (kg) for mass, metre (m) for length, second (s) for time, ampere (A) for electric current, kelvin (K) for temperature, candela (cd) for luminous intensity, and mole (mol) for amount of substance. Each base unit is precisely defined, such as the second being defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation of a caesium-133 atom. These base units are used to derive all other units in the International System of Units.

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Si Base Units

The 7 SI base units are the kilogram (kg) for mass, metre (m) for length, second (s) for time, ampere (A) for electric current, kelvin (K) for temperature, candela (cd) for luminous intensity, and mole (mol) for amount of substance. Each base unit is precisely defined, such as the second being defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation of a caesium-133 atom. These base units are used to derive all other units in the International System of Units.

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SI BASE UNITS The SI base units are the standard units for scientists worldwide.

There are 7 base units, from which other are derived: SYMBOL QUANTITY kg mass m length UNIT DEFINITION Kilogram The kilogram is the unit of mass; it is equal to the mass of the international prototype of the kilogram. Metre The metre is the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second. Second The second is the duration of 9,192,631,770 period of radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atoms. Ampere The ampere is that constant current that, if maintained in two straight parallel conductors of infinite length, of negligible circular cross section, and placed 1m apart in a vacuum, would produce the conductor force equal to 2 x 10-7 Newton per metre of length Kelvin The Kelvin, unit of thermodynamic temperatures, is the fraction 1/273.16 of the thermodynamic temperature of the triple point of water Candela The candela is the luminous intensity, in a given direction, of a source that emits monochromatic radiation of frequency 540 x 1012 hertz and that has a radiant intensity in that direction of 1/1683 watt per streadian. mole The mole is the amount of substance of a system that contains as many elemeantary entities as there are atoms in 0.012kg of carbon 12. When the mole is used, the elementary entitles must be specific and may be atoms, molecules, ions, electrons, other particales or specific groups of such particles.

Time

Electric current

temperature

cd

Luminous intensity

mol

Amount of substance

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