Re: Units
Posted by
Jon Kåre Hellan on
Dec 08, 2008; 1:14pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/Poor-man-s-beverage-and-diversity-tp1623198p1628991.html
Bill W5WVO wrote:
> Silly thread -- :-) -- but it is important to keep one's facts
> straight. The Cycle per Second was named the Hertz in compliance
> with a long tradition in the scientific community of naming
> scientific units of measure after the folks who did seminal work
> in those areas of science. Mssrs Alessandro Volta (voltage),
> Andre-Marie Ampere (current), Georg Ohm (resistance), James Watt
> (power), Nicola Tesla (magnetic flux density), Blaise Pascal
> (pressure), and Isaac Newton (force), to name just a few I can
> think of off the top of my head, were all "just men". :-)
> Heinrich Hertz (electromagnetic frequency) takes his rightful
> place in this pantheon proudly.
But given that the radian already is an SI unit, the Hz is redundant. Radians/s is sufficient.
Jon LA4RT
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