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most citedThe role of unit systems in expressing and testing the laws of nature

11 citations · 31 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

physics.class-ph20216 cited

Angles in the SI: a detailed proposal for solving the problem

Paul Quincey

A recent Letter proposed changing the dimensionless status of the radian and steradian within the SI, while allowing the continued use of the convention to set the angle 1 radian e…

physics.ed-ph20216 cited

Solid angles in perspective

Paul Quincey

The specialised uses of solid angles mean that they are quite unfamiliar quantities. This article, apart from making solid angles a little more familiar, brings out several topics…

physics.class-ph20218 cited

Angles in the SI: treating the radian as an independent, unhidden unit does not require the redefinition of the term frequency or the unit hertz

Paul Quincey

Some recent papers have argued that frequency should have the dimensions of angle/time, with the consequences that 1 Hz = rad/s instead of 1 s, and also that and…

physics.gen-ph201911 cited

The role of unit systems in expressing and testing the laws of nature

Paul Quincey, Kathryn Burrows

The paper firstly argues from conservation principles that, when dealing with physics aside from elementary particle interactions, the number of naturally independent quantities, a…

physics.gen-ph2019

Angles are inherently neither length ratios nor dimensionless

Paul Quincey, Peter J Mohr, William D Phillips

The status of angles within The International System of Units (SI) has long been a source of controversy and confusion. We address one specific but crucial issue, putting the case…

physics.gen-ph2017

A clearer approach for defining unit systems

Paul Quincey, Richard J. C. Brown

We present the SI and other unit systems, including cgs-em and cgs-es, in a framework whereby a system of fully independent and dimensionally orthogonal base units is modified by c…