Monday, June 1, 2015

Basic VS Derived quantities

Basic quantity

SI base unit
Base quantityNameSymbol
lengthmeterm
masskilogram      kg
timeseconds
electric currentampereA
thermodynamic temperature      kelvinK
amount of substancemolemol
luminous intensitycandelacd



Derived quantity - Combination of badic quantities

Other Units
velocity
meter per second, m/s
acceleration
meter per second squared, 
force
Newton, 
pressure
Pascal, 
energy
Joule, 
power
Watt, 


http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/units.html