"What is The SI?” A Proposal for an Educational Adjunct to the Redefinition of the International System of Units

• Published in: Journal of research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Vol. 123; pp. 1 - 11
• Main Authors: Zimmerman, Neil M., Newell, David B.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Gaithersburg Superintendent of Documents 14.12.2018; [Gaithersburg, MD] : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Subjects: Brochures; Experiments; International System of Units; Metric system; Physics; Questionnaires; Secondary schools; Students; Textbooks; United States > US

We discuss how the impending redefinition of the SI system of units might affect the ability of students to understand the link between the units and the new system. The redefinition will no longer define a set of base units, but rather a set of constants of nature, such as the elementary charge, e....