SI UNITS FOR FLUID POWER

SI UNITS were agreed internationally in the late 1960's. At the time, they were an
extension and refinement of the previous metric system. Because the Systeme Interna-
tional d'Unites (SI) was designed to be a coherent system of units - where the product or
quotient of any two unit quantities is the unit of the resultant quantity - there is an agreed
restricted number of seven Base Units in accord with ISO 1000: 1992 (Ed. 3) - see also ISO
31:1992. These are;
metre - m the unit length
kilogram kg the unit of mass
second - s the unit of time
ampere - A the unit of electric current
degree kelvin K the unit of thermodynamic temperature
mole - mol the amount of substance
candela cd the unit of luminous intensity