Deluged by responses to his request for your favourite units, Robert P Crease discovers that non-SI units persist, and are sometimes even popular, among the physics community Setting the standard ...

An upcoming change to SI units – due to be officially approved this month – will mark the end of a long journey from defining quantities in terms of objects to using precise, unchanging and universal ...

Electric power, a fundamental concept in physics, denotes the rate at which electrical energy is transferred through an electric circuit over a specified duration. It is quantified in watts (W ...

CBSE Class 11 Physics notes on Chapter 2, Units and Measurement (Part 1) are available here. Important topics covered in these notes are Physical quantities, Units, Fundamental (or Base) units ...

I disagree with your suggestion to promote the radian to the International System of Units (SI units) to address the confusion over dimensionless numbers (Nature 548, 135; 2017). On the contrary ...

A flaw in the system leaves physicists grappling with dimensionless units. Water is a precious resource. So protest erupted when, last September, India’s Supreme Court ordered Karnataka state to ...