| Metric Relationships |
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The above chart shows the relation of |
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term watt is a basic unit). The number of |
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the most used values in the American and
the metric systems of notation. |
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steps so counted is three, and the direction
was to the left. Therefore, 5.0 milliwatts is |
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the equivalent of .005 watts. |
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This chart also serves to quickly locate |
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the decimal point in the conversion from
one metric expression to another.
Example: Convert 5.0 milliwatts to watts.
Place the finger on milli and count the num-
ber of steps from there to units (since the |
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Example: Convert 0.00035 microfarads to
picofarads (micromicrofarads). Here the
number of steps counted will be six to the
right. Therefore 0.00035 microfarads is the
equivalent of 350 picofarads. |
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| New International Codes |
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The gradual adoption in this country of |
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“Kilomega” (km) has been replaced |
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new international codes for metric prefixes |
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by “giga” (G). |
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amd measurement terminology by govern- |
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“Hertz”. This term was recently adopted |
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ment agencies, industry, technical maga-
zines, book publishers and others, is slowly
changing the system of measurement
and evaluation codes in general use
today. |
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in the United States but it is not represented
in this handbook. It is, however, already
used by some publishers in place of”cycles”
in references to frequency specifications. |
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The old familiar terms such as “cycles” |
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(cyc), “kilocycles” (kc) and “megacycles” |
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Acceptance of the new codes here, how- |
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(Mc), are replaced by “Hertz” (Hz), |
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ever, has been slow. We have , therefore,
continued to use the more familial termi-
nology in this handbook with the following
exceptions which appear in the metric |
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“kilohertz” (kHz) and “megahertz”
(MHz). |
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To combine two of these changes in one |
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tables in the next two pages: |
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specification, the old term “kilomegacycles”
(kMc) has become “gigahertz” (GHz). |
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The cumbersome term “micromicro”
has been replaced by “pico”. Micro-
microfarad” (µµf) now becomes “pico-
farad” (pf). |
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Heinrich Rudolph Hertz, was born in |
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Germany in 1857 and died in 1894. He was
the first scientist to dect, create and
measure electromagnetic waves. |
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