| Note: | This publication, which is commonly called the SI Brochure, consists of the official French text followed by an English translation. |
| Note: | This publication is the United States edition of the English translation in Ref. [2]. |
| Notes: | 1 | ISO publications are available in the United States from the sales department of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), 105-111 South State Street, Hackensack, NJ 07601. |
| 2 | See the note at the end of Ref. [6]. |
Quantities and units - Part 0: General principles, ISO 31-0:1992.
Quantities and units - Part 1: Space and time, ISO 31-1: 1992.
Quantities and units - Part 2: Periodic and related phenomena, ISO 31-2:1992.
Quantities and units - Part 3: Mechanics, ISO 31-3:1992.
Quantities and units - Part 4: Heat, ISO 31-4:1992.
Quantities and units - Part 5: Electricity and magnetism, ISO 31-5:1992.
Quantities and units - Part 6: Light and related electromagnetic radiations, ISO 31-6:1992.
Quantities and units - Part 7: Acoustics, ISO 31-7:1992.
Quantities and units - Part 8: Physical chemistry and molecular physics, ISO 31-8:1992.
Quantities and units - Part 9: Atomic and nuclear physics, ISO 31-9:1992.
Quantities and units - Part 10: Nuclear reactions and ionizing radiations, ISO 31-10:1992.
Quantities and units - Part 11: Mathematical signs and symbols for use in physical sciences and technology, ISO 31-11:1992.
Quantities and units - Part 12: Characteristic numbers, ISO 31-12:1992.
Quantities and units - Part 13: Solid state physics, ISO 31-13:1992.
| Note: | ISO 31-0:1992 - ISO 31-13:1992 and ISO 1000:1992 are reprinted in the ISO Standards Handbook Quantities and units (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, 1993). (The availability of ISO publications in the United States is discussed in Ref. [5], note 1.) |
| Note: | IEC publications are available in the United States from the American National Standards Institute - see Ref. [5], note 1. |
Letter symbols to be used in electrical technology, Part 1: General, IEC 27-1 (1991).
Letter symbols to be used in electrical technology, Part 2: Telecommunications and electronics, IEC 27-2 (1972) [including IEC 27-2A (1975) and IEC 27-2B (1980), first and second supplements to IEC 27-2 (1972)].
Letter symbols to be used in electrical technology, Part 3: Logarithmic quantities and units, IEC 27-3 (1989).
Letter symbols to be used in electrical technology, Part 4: Symbols for quantities to be used for rotating electrical machines, IEC 27-4 (1985).
| Notes: | 1 | IEEE publications are available from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, P.O. Box 1331 Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331. |
| 2 | A number of similar standards for metric practice are published by United
States technical organizations. They include:
Standard Practice for Use of the International System of Units (SI) (The Modernized Metric System), E 380-93 (American Society for Testing and Materials, Philadelphia, PA, 1993). Note : ASTM publications are available from the Customer Service Department, American Society for Testing and Materials, 1916 Race Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103. Rules for SAE Use of SI (Metric) Units, SAE J916 MAY 91 (Society of Automotive Engineers, Warrendale, PA, May 1991). Note : SAE publications are available from the Society of Automotive Engineers, 400 Commonwealth Drive, Warrendale, PA 15096. | |
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The Canadian Standards Association, 178 Rexdale Boulevard, Rexdale (Toronto), Ontario, Canada, M9W 1R3, publishes CAN/CSA-Z234.1-89, Canadian Metric Practice Guide, a Canadian National Standard. It is similar in scope to ANSI/IEEE Std 268-1992 (Ref. [8]). | |
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A joint ASTM-IEEE effort is currently underway to consolidate ANSI/IEEE Std. 268-1992 and ASTM E 380-93 into a single ANSI standard. |
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The application of the SI to physical chemistry is discussed in Quantities, Units and Symbols in Physical Chemistry, prepared by I. Mills, T. Cvitaš, K. Homann, N. Kallay, and K. Kuchitsu, Second Edition (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 1993). |
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