Radiant flux Radiant flux In radiometry, radiant flux or radiant power is the radiant energy emitted, reflected, transmitted or received, per unit time, and spectral flux or spectral power is the radiant flux per unit frequency or wavelength, depending on whether the spectrum is taken as a function of frequency or of wavelength. The SI unit of radiant flux is the watt (W), that is the joule per second () in SI base units, while that of spectral flux in frequency is the watt per hertz () and that of spectral flux in wavelength is the watt per metre ()—commonly the watt
Unit of length in vacuum during a time interval of seconds." It is approximately equal to . Other units are derived from the metre by adding prefixes from the table below: For example, a kilometre is . In the Centimetre–gram–second system of units, the basic unit of length is the centimetre, or of a metre. Other non-SI units are derived from decimal multiples of the metre. The basic unit of length in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems is the yard, defined as exactly by international treaty in 1959. Common Imperial units and U.S. customary units of length include: In addition, the following