Dimensions and units in electrodynamics

General Relativity and Gravitation

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 733-749

  Hehl, Friedrich W ^a,b   Obukhov, Yuri N ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Absolute and relative dimensions; Classical electrodynamics; General covariance; Metrology; Premetric electrodynamics; Speed of light; Units; Vacuum resistance

Indexed keywords

EID: 18244390489     PISSN: 00017701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10714-005-0059-2     Document Type: Article

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