Pump Handbook, Third Edition

Technical

Table 1A

Base Units of the International System of Units (SI) and Their Definitions

A.2

Table 1B

Supplementary SI Units and Their Definitions

A.2

Table 2

Derived Units of the SI System

A.3

Table 3

Prefixes of SI Multiple and Submultiple Units

A.3

Table 4

Velocity and Frictional Head Loss in Old Cast Iron Piping Based on Hazen-Williams C = 100

A.4

Figure 1

Change in Hazen-Williams Coefficient C with Years of Service for Cast Iron Pipes Handling Soft, Clear, Unfiltered Water

A.6

Figure 2

Atmospheric Pressures for Altitudes up to 12,000 ft (3600 m)

A.7

Table 5

Velocity and Frictional Head Loss in New Schedule 40 (Standard Weight) Steel Piping Based on Darcy-Weisbach

A.8

Table 6

Viscosity of Common Liquids

A.10

Table 7

Viscosity Conversion Tables

A.20

Table 8

Properties of Water at Temperatures from 40 to 705.4 F (4.4 to 374.1 C)

A.22

Table 9

Conversions of USCS to SI Units

A.25

TABLE 1A: Base units of the International System of Units (SI) and their definitions
Symbol Unit Definition

m

meter a

Unit of length equal to 1,650,763.73 wavelengths in vacuum of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the 2 p 10 and 5 d 5 levels of the krypton-86 atom

kg

kilogram

Unit of mass equal to that of the international prototype of the kilogram

s

second

Unit of time equal to the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the...

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