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It is catalogued under topics including Carl Friedrich Gauss, Centimetre–gram–second system of units and Units of magnetic flux density.
Its subject is documented across 49 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Unit system
- Gaussian and emu-cgs
- Unit of
- magnetic flux density (also known as magnetic induction , or the B -field, or magnetic field)
- Symbol
- G or Gs
- Named after
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Si derived units
- 10 tesla
- Gaussian base units
- 1 cm ⋅ g ⋅ s
- Esu cgs
- 1/ c cgs esu
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Gaussian units
- Named after
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
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- measured physical quantity
- magnetic flux density
- unit symbol
- Гс
- conversion to SI unit
- 0.0001
- different from
- Gauss
- Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent
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- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C68915
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Encyclopedic overview
Carl Friedrich Gauß in 1828, aged 50 years old The gauss (symbol: G, sometimes Gs) is a unit of measurement of magnetic flux density, B (also known as magnetic induction or magnetic field). The unit is part of the Gaussian system of units, which inherited it from the older centimetre–gram–second electromagnetic units (CGS-EMU) system. It was named after the German mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss in 1936. One gauss is defined as one maxwell per square centimetre.
As the centimetre–gram–second system of units (cgs system) has been superseded by the International System of Units (SI), the use of the gauss has been deprecated by the standards bodies, but is still regularly used in various subfields of science, and preferred in astrophysics. The SI unit for magnetic flux density is the tesla (symbol T), which corresponds to 10,000gauss.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “gauss” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.