James Clerk Maxwell on quantities and units

Autor:	Krystek, Michael P.
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Physics - History and Philosophy of Physics
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	In the scientific literature the equation $Q=\{Q\}[Q]$ is frequently quoted, where $Q$ denotes a quantity, $\{Q\}$ a numerical value, and $[Q]$ a unit. During the last years some experts claimed, that this equation is due to James Clerk Maxwell. This is obvious, they say, from the opening sentences at the beginning of Maxwell's book "A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism". In this paper it will be shown that this view cannot be justified.
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.06125 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv