Watt balance experiments for the determination of the Planck constant and the redefinition of the kilogram

Metrologia

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Stock, M ^a  

^a PAVILLON DE BRETEUIL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL POWER; EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION; INTERNATIONAL PROTOTYPE; MACROSCOPIC MASS; MACROSCOPIC QUANTUM; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; NUMERICAL VALUES; OPERATING PRINCIPLES; PLANCK CONSTANTS; RELATIVE UNCERTAINTY; UNIT OF MASS; WATT BALANCE;

METRIC SYSTEM; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84873341516     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/50/1/R1     Document Type: Review

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