emu system
The emu system was a system of units for measuring electrical and magnetic quantities based on the centimetre–gram–second (CGS) system. They were developed by the British Association for the Advancement of Science (B.A.) from 1862 to 1873, based on an original idea by Weber, and rendered obsolete by the introduction of electrical and magnetic units into the International System of Units (SI) in 1948.
The emu system was usually treated as a non-rationalized three-quantity system in which electric current, for example, had the dimension (force)½. The magnetic constant (known at the time as the "permeability of free space") was literally ignored: in modern terms, it was set as dimensionless and with a value of 1. For these reasons, the form of quantity equations intended for use with the emu system is often different from that of the corresponding equations in the four-quantity rationalized International System of Quantities.[1]
Units
| Name | SI equivalent | |
|---|---|---|
| emu of electric current | abampere biot |
10 A |
Notes and references
Notes
References
- ↑ Quantities, Units and Symbols in Physical Chemistry, 2nd ed.; Blackwell Science: Oxford, 1993; pp 117–23. ISBN 0-63203-5838, <http://old.iupac.org/publications/books/gbook/green_book_2ed.pdf>.
