Baron Carter asked in USMA 22446: >A current (Spring 2002) question from UT Austin in > >PHY 303K > >Classical Mechanics > >http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/301/lectures/node22.html ><http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/301/lectures/node22.html> > >answers are required in "mks" units. Surely this should have stated answers >in SI metric units or explicitly stated metres, kilograms, seconds. Is mks >used prevalently? > > > cheers >Baron Carter
We use the mksA system proposed by Giuseppe Giorgi in 1901. It was adopted by la Commission Electrotechnique Internationale (CEI) in 1935. La Conf�rence G�n�rale des Poids et Mesures adopted it in 1954, renamed it as Le Syst�me International des Poids et Mesures (SI) in 1960 and added 3 more base units. The University of Texas is at least half a century out of date with its nomenclature. Physics, of course, used metric units before 1954, but they were centimetre-gram-second (cgs) units. The arrival of SI has made obsolete the following units: erg, dyne, poise, stokes, gauss oersted, maxwell, stilb, phot, and gal. Thes have been replaced by the joule, newton, pascal-second, metre-squared-per-second, tesla, ampere-per-metre, weber, candela-per-square-metre, lux, and metre-per-second-squared.
