The BIPM measurements of the Newtonian constant of gravitation, G

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 372, Issue 2026, 2014, Pages

  Quinn, Terry ^a,c   Speake, Clive ^b   Parks, Harold ^a,d   Davis, Richard ^a,c  

^a PAVILLON DE BRETEUIL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c BIPM   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Experimental gravitational pyhsics; Gravitational constant; Gravity; Metrology

Indexed keywords

MEASUREMENTS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

ANELASTICITY; DIMENSIONAL METROLOGY; ELECTROSTATIC TORQUE; EXPERIMENTAL GRAVITATIONAL PYHSICS; GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT; MAGNETIC INTERACTIONS; MEASUREMENTS OF; MOMENT OF INERTIA;

GRAVITATION;

EID: 84907261132     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2014.0032     Document Type: Review

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