Relationships between cgs and SI units

The problem of units is discussed in the Preface to this book. In this and all of the following chapters, we use SI units It is a fact, however, that almost all of the relevant original literature gives expressions in terms of cgs units. The relationships between cgs and SI units are straightforward and are summarised in General Appendix E. We... 

Table 5.3 The relationship between some magnetic parameters in cgs and SI units, (where C = Gauss, Oe = Oersted, T = Tesla,...

Table 1.2-11 deals with the relationship between CGS units and SI units, and lists those CGS units that were assigned special names. In the field of mechanics, the CGS system of units was built upon three quantities and their corresponding base units the centimeter, the gram, and the second. In the field of electricity and magnetism, units were expressed in terms of these three base units. Because this can be done in different ways, this led to the establishment of several different systems, for example the CGS electrostatic system, the CGS electromagnetic system, and the CGS Gaussian system. In those three systems, the system of quantities used... 

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