Talk:SI base unit

Removed table

here's the table I took out in case eveyone wants it back:

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Physical quantity	Symbol	Name of SI base unit	Symbol for SI unit	Remarks
length	$l$	metre	m	One metre is defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299792458 second. This standard was adopted in 1983, when the speed of light in vacuum was defined to be precisely 299792458 m/s.
mass	$m$	kilogram	kg	One kilogram is defined to be the mass of a specific cylinder of platinum-iridium alloy, kept at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (near Paris).
time	$t$	second	s	One second is defined as the time required for 9192631770 cycles of a hyperfine transition in cesium 133. This definition was adopted in 1967.
electric current	$I$	ampere	A
thermodynamic temperature	$T$	kelvin	K
amount of substance	$n$	mole	mol
luminous intensity	$I_v$	candela	cd

What?

Ampere, a base unit, is defined in terms of a Newton, which is not a base unit?

Yes. I imagine that it is for convenience. If you like, you can mentally substitute "amount of force required to accelerate a one-kilogram mass at a rate of one meter per second per second" for "newton". It's also "equal to a flow of one coulomb per second" (ampere). I am not a physicist, but I don't really see any problem with defining base units in terms of non-base units — as long as there are no circular references — since those non-base units are in turn defined in terms of base units. See also: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/current.html. --Timc 19:43, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

ampere:newton

"Yes. I imagine that it is for convenience. If you like, you can mentally substitute "amount of force required to accelerate a one-kilogram mass at a rate of one meter per second per second" for "newton""

Please edit this into the article 02:55, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC) what it means the MASS?

TFA?

See Wikipedia talk:Featured articles#2019 redefinition of SI base units. --Guy Macon (talk) 15:29, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

Kelvin independent?

Since Boltzmann's constant is dimensionless (although mosts chemists and too many physicists seem to be unaware of the fact) the Kelvin is in fact equivalent to (a rather small amount of) energy, which is expressible in the base constants mass, length, and time. 2A01:CB0C:CD:D800:4507:4B4B:7EE:825F (talk) 15:57, 14 June 2021 (UTC)