Centimeter - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: centimeterC G S
An abbreviation for Centimeter Gram Second applied to a system of units much employed in physical science based upon the centimeter as the unit of length the gram as the unit of weight or mass and the second as the unit of time...
Dyne
The unit of force in the C G S Centimeter Gram Second system of physical units that is the force which acting on a gram for a second generates a velocity of a centimeter per second...
Erg
The unit of work or energy in the C G S system being the amount of work done by a dyne working through a distance of one centimeter the amount of energy expended in moving a body one centimeter against a force of one dyne 981 dynes exert the same force as a one gram mass in the earths gravitational field One foot pound is equal to 13560000 ergs The absolute Joule is equivalent to 107 ergs which are equivalent to 02389 gram calories at 15deg C See also mechanical equivalent of heat under equivalent...
Barad
The pressure of one dyne per square centimeter used as a unit of pressure...
Centimeter
The hundredth part of a meter a measure of length equal to rather more than thirty nine hundredths 03937 of an inch See Meter...
cm
the abbreviation for centimeter...
Crith
The unit for estimating the weight of aeumlriform substances the weight of a liter of hydrogen at 0deg centigrade and with a tension of 76 centimeters of mercury It is 00896 of a gram or 138274 grains...
Gauss
The CGS unit of density of magnetic field equal to a field of one line of force per square centimeter being thus adopted as an international unit at Paris in 1900 sometimes used as a unit of intensity of magnetic field It was previously suggested as a unit of magnetomotive force...
maxwell
A cgs unit of magnetic flux abbreviated Mx it is equal to the magnetic flux passing through one sqaure centimeter which is normal to a magnetic field of one gauss...
Metergram
A measure of energy or work done the power exerted in raising one gram through the distance of one meter against gravitation 100 gram centimeters...
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