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The Role of Fundamental Constants in the International System of Units (SI): Present and Future

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Author(s)

Barry N. Taylor, Peter J. Mohr

Abstract

This paper addresses the role of fundamental constants in (1) the current definitions of the base units; (2) practical representations of SI electric units and the consistency of those representations with the SI as deduced from the 1998 CODATA recommended values of the constants; and (3) redefinition of the kilogram and the impact on realizations of SI electric units of a newly proposed definition that fixes the value of the Planck constant h.
Citation
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
Volume
50
Issue
No. 2
Pub Type
Journals

Keywords

electric unit realization, electric unit representations, fundamental constants, Josephson effect, kilogram redefinition, Planck constant quantum Hall effect, watt balance

Citation

Taylor, B. and Mohr, P. (2001), The Role of Fundamental Constants in the International System of Units (SI): Present and Future, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (Accessed May 10, 2025)

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Created April 1, 2001, Updated February 17, 2017