School of Nursing and Academic Division of Midwifery

RLO: SI Units

• Standardisation
• SI Units
• Combining SI Units
• SI Derived Units
• Resources
• Prefixes
• Assessment
• Feedback
• Glossary
• Summary

The seven basic SI units can be combined to form many other measurements: For example, area is measured as square metres, volume as cubic metres and speed as metres per second.

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Developer: Viv Rolfe

Content author: Martyn Harling,Carolyn Hardy, Richard Windle

RLO released: 26 October, 2006

Page last updated: 1 December, 2006