SI base unit SI base unit The International System of Units (SI) defines seven units of measure as a basic set from which all other SI units can be derived. The SI base units and their physical quantities are the meter for measurement of length, the kilogram for mass, the second for time, the ampere for electric current, the kelvin for temperature, the candela for luminous intensity, and the mole for amount of substance. The SI base units form a set of mutually independent dimensions as required by dimensional analysis commonly employed in science and technology. The names and symbols of SI base
Work (physics) "weight "lifted" through a height", which is based on the use of early steam engines to lift buckets of water out of flooded ore mines. According to Dugas, it is to Solomon of Caux "that we owe the term "work" in the sense that it is used in mechanics now". The SI unit of work is the joule (J). The SI unit of work is the joule (J), which is defined as the work expended by a force of one newton through a displacement of one metre. The dimensionally equivalent newton-metre (N⋅m) is sometimes used as the measuring unit for