Quantities, Dimensions and Dimensional Analysis
History and Overview
2015-04-20 v4 Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
History and Philosophy of Physics
Abstract
Formal definitions of quantities, quantity spaces, dimensions and dimension groups are introduced. Based on these concepts, a theoretical framework and a practical algorithm for dimensional analysis are developed, and examples of dimensional analysis are given.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1408.5024,
title = {Quantities, Dimensions and Dimensional Analysis},
author = {Dan Jonsson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.5024},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Edits, corrections, Section 3.3 added. 29 pages, 1 figure