Enzyme unit SI unit, the enzyme unit is discouraged in favour of the katal, the unit recommended by the General Conference on Weights and Measures in 1978 and officially adopted in 1999. One katal is the amount of enzyme that converts 1 mole of substrate per second, so The enzyme unit should not be confused with the international unit (IU); although it is true that both measure chemical activity and that for many enzymes 1 U = 1 IU (because for many enzymes the existing U was adopted as the newer IU), international units can be defined for the biologic activity of
Cartan formalism (physics) the normal Einstein–Hilbert action, using the relations formula_95 and formula_96. Note that in terms of the Planck mass, we set formula_97, whereas the last term keeps all the SI unit factors. Note that in the presence of spinor fields, the Palatini action implies that formula_98 is nonzero. So there's a non-zero torsion, i.e. that formula_99. See Einstein–Cartan theory. Cartan formalism (physics) The vierbein or tetrad theory much used in theoretical physics is a special case of the application of Cartan connection in four-dimensional manifolds. It applies to metrics of any signature. (See metric tensor.) This section is an approach to