The case of the disappearing angle units, or "the dangle of the angle"
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08-01-2019, 01:41 AM
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RE: The case of the disappearing angle units, or "the dangle of the angle"
A radian is not an independent unit as you are using it above. It is a dimensionless name.
In the ASTM SI-10 document a radian in base units is m/m (from Table 4), which self cancels out. Quoting from clause 3.4.4.1 of SI-10 (2016) : The coherent SI unit of plane angle is the number one; thus, the coherent SI units of the quantities angle, angular velocity, and angular acceleration are, respectively, 1, 1/s, and 1/s^2 . However, it is often convenient to use the special name radian (rad) instead of the number 1 when expressing the values of these quantities. Note: ASTM SI-10 is titled the American National Standard for Metric Practice. |
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