Planck, units, and modern metrology

Annalen der Physik (Leipzig)

Volumn 17, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 101-114

  Flowers, Jeff L ^a   Petley, Brian W ^a  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Determination of fundamental constants; Planck constant; Unit systems

Indexed keywords

DETERMINATION OF FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANTS; FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANTS; PLANCK CONSTANT; PLANCK CONSTANTS; SI SYSTEMS; UNIT SYSTEMS;

EID: 54949095412     PISSN: 00033804     EISSN: 15213889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/andp.200710277     Document Type: Article

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