About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 64. Chapters: Conversion of units, Baud, PH, Erlang, Neper, Unit of alcohol, DBm, Automatic baud rate detection, Data signaling rate, Dioptre, Parts-per notation, Dobson unit, DBrn, Decibel, Call-second, Film speed, Ampere-turn, Jansky, List of unusual units of measurement, Bit rate, List of humorous units of measurement, International System of Electrical and Magnetic Units, History of measurement, Cent, Signal to noise ratio, Chilling requirement, International unit, List of scientific units named after people, Sone, Thomson, Arbitrary unit, Mired, Universal Converter, Phon, Millioctave, Darcy, Savart, Centimorgan, Tablet hardness unit, Tog, Perm, Metrication in Guatemala, DBZ, Montevideo units, Rayl, Barrer, Bubnoff unit, Olf, Eotvos, Grains per gallon, Saybolt Universal Second, Sharp Scale, Cape foot, Sabin, Thermal dose unit, DGH, Cumec, InHour, Langley, Measurement of land in Punjab, Penrig, Decipol, Awqiyyah, Metre squared per second, Newton-second, Flik, Square meters per pixel, Chua, Acoustic ohm, Watt-hour per kilogram, Buckingham. Excerpt: Conversion of units refers to conversion factors between different units of measurement for the same quantity. The process of conversion depends on the specific situation and the intended purpose. This may be governed by regulation, contract, Technical specifications or other published standards. Engineering judgment may include such factors as: Some conversions from one system of units to another need to be exact, without increasing or decreasing the precision of the first measurement. This is sometimes called soft conversion. It does not involve changing the physical configuration of the item being measured. By contrast, a hard conversion or an adaptive conversion may not be exactly equivalent. It changes the measurement to convenient and workable numbers and units in the new syste...
