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THE EAEG'S CHOICE OF UNITS *
Author(s) -
GREEN R.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
geophysical prospecting
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.735
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 1365-2478
pISSN - 0016-8025
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2478.1968.tb01957.x
Subject(s) - confusion , preference , unit (ring theory) , computer science , metamorphic petrology , geology , geophysics , mathematical economics , mathematics , statistics , seismology , psychology , mathematics education , psychoanalysis , tectonics
The use of MKS system units in preference to the cgs system facilitates accurate numerical calculation in magnetostatic problems in geophysics and the practice of stating the precise dimensions of every unit guards against confusion. Suggestions are made for the unique definition of quantities such as magnetic potential, etc. for which the undesirable circumstance of arbitrary alternatives still persists.