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From artefacts to atoms : the BIPM and the search for ultimate measurement standards /
The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) is currently implementing the greatest change ever in the world's system of weights and measures -- it is redefining the kilogram, the final artefact standard, and reorganizing the system of international units. This book tells the inside...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2012]
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| 500 | |a Includes index. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-386) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Chapter 1: The origins of the Metre Convention 1851 to 1869 -- Chapter 2: The creation of the International Metre Commission 1869 -- Chapter 3: The International Metre Commission, meetings of 1872/73 -- Chapter 4: The casting of 1874 and the first steps in the fabrication of the new metric standards -- Chapter 5: The Diplomatic Conference of the Metre 1875 -- Chapter 6: The creation of the BIPM and the beginning of the construction of the new metric prototypes; problems with the French Section -- Chapter 7: 1879 to 1889, the first decade of scientific work at the International Bureau Progress with metres and instruments -- Chapter 8: New Member States and the first General Conference on Weights and Measures, 1889 -- Chapter 9: The development of the scientific work at the BIPM, the General Conferences of 1895 and 1901 -- Chapter 10: The creation of the Grands Laboratoires Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (PTR) National Physical Laboratory (NPL) -- Chapter 11: The story of invar and the extension of the role of the International Bureau at the 6th General Conference 1921 -- Chapter 12: The 7th and 8th General Conferences 1927 and 1933, practical metrology and the Bureau during the Second World War -- Chapter 13: The SI, absolute electrical units, the International Committee and the creation of the ionizing radiation section -- Chapter 14: The adoption of the SI, revising the Metre Convention, new definitions of the metre and second at the 11th General Conference 1960 -- Chapter 15: The mole, the speed of light and more about the Metre Convention -- Chapter 16: New science at the BIPM and the Recognition of National measurement Standards -- Chapter 17: The redefinition of the kilogram and the move towards the New SI -- Epilogue: The new SI and the future role of the BIPM -- Appendix English text of the Metre Convention. | |
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