L W Turner FIEE Consultant Engineer
1.1 Quantities and Units
The International System of Units (SI) is the modern form of the metric system agreed at an international conference in 1960. It has been adopted by the International Standards Organisation (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and its use is recommended wherever the metric system is applied. It is now being adopted throughout most of the world and is likely to remain the primary world system of units of measurement for a very long time. The indications are that SI units will supersede the units of existing metric systems and all systems based on Imperial units.
SI units and the rules for their application are contained in ISO Resolution R1000 (1969, ...
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