Notebook 1

Base Units
Quantity
Mass
Length

Unit Name
kilogram
meter

Symbol
kg
m

Time

second

Electric Current

ampere

Temperature
Amount of
Substance

kelvin
mole

k
mol

Luminous
Intensity

candela

cd

Definition
The amount or quantity of matter
The meter was defined in 1983as the distance
that light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,485
Time is now measured by the vibrations of
cesium-133atoms, sometimes also called the
atomic clocked.
Electrons that are moving in predominately the
same direction
A measure of thermal energy
A standards-defined quantity that measures the
size of an ensemble of elementary entities such
as atoms, molecules, electrons, and other
particles. Sometimes referred to as a chemical
amount.
A measure of the wavelength weighted power
emitted by a light source in a particular direction
per unit solid angle, based on the luminosity
function, a standardized model of the sensitivity
of the human eye.

Derived Units
Quantity
Absorbed Dose
Charge
Electric Potential
Dose Equivalent
Energy
Exposure
Frequency
Force
Magnetic Flux
Magnetic Flux
Density
Power
Radioactivity

Unit Name
gray
coulomb
volt
sievert
joule
Coulomb/kilogram
hertz
newton
weber
tesla

Symbol
Gy
C
v
Sv
J
C/kg
Hz
N
Wb
T

watt
bequerel

W
Bq

British Units
rad
esu
rem
Ft/lb
roentgen
Cycles per second

gauss

curie

SI Unit Values
Factors
1012
109
106
103
102
101
10-1
10-2
10-3
10-6
10-9
10-12
10-15
10-18

Prefixes
tera
giga
mega
kilo
hecto
deca
deci
centi
milli
micro
nano
pico
femto
atto

Symbols
T
G
M
k
h
da
d
c
m

Symbol
kV
cm
mA
mGy
ns

Meaning
103 volts
10-2 meter
10-3amp
10-3 Gy
10-9 second

n
p
f
a

Commonly Used SI Prefixes

Unit
kilovolt
centimeter
milliampere
milligray
nanosecond

Atomic Particles
Particle
Proton
Neutron
Electron

Mass Number
1
1
0

Mass (kilograms)
1.673 x 10-27
1.675 x 10-27
9.109 x 10-31

amu
1.00728
1.00867
0.000548

Charge
Positive
Neutral
Negative