Talk:Centimetre gram second system of units
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Is this system still in use. To my knowledge nowadays international standards recommend people to use SI which is done in Europe.
It's used primarily in physics E&M textbooks because the coulomb and tesla are rediculously large, and in SI they are different units. In CGS, the Gauss is the same as a statvolt/meter. I suppose that it is primarily an informational peice, mainly for completeness.--BlackGriffen
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A centimeter is the capacitance between a 1-cm sphere in vacuum and infinity. Is this true in the CGS system? It doesn't make sense to someone raised on SI units. Could this sentence be better worded to explain why a unit normally used for distance is also a unit of capacitance, please? -- Heron
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Would anyone object to my removing the 'not used' from Gauss? I, and many others astronomers, use them every day.