Items tagged “si unit”
2 results found
Article
Becquerel (SI unit)
The becquerel (symbol: Bq) is the SI unit of radioactivity and is defined as one nuclear disintegration per second 1; it officially replaced the curie (Ci), the unit in the superseded cgs system, in 1975.
On Radiopaedia.org we primarily express all radioactive doses in becquerels. However as th...
Article
Tesla (SI unit)
The tesla (symbol T) is the derived SI unit of magnetic flux density, which represents the strength of a magnetic field. One tesla represents one weber per square meter. The equivalent, and superseded, cgs unit is the gauss (G); one tesla equals exactly 10,000 gauss.
Most current medical magnet...