Concept information
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Preferred term
statVStatvolt (en)
Definition
- "statvolt" is a unit of voltage and electrical potential used in the cgs system of units. The conversion to the SI system is $1 statvolt = 299.792458 volts$. The conversion factor 299.792458 is simply the numerical value of the speed of light in m/s divided by 106. The statvolt is also defined in the cgs system as $1 erg / esu$. It is a useful unit for electromagnetism because one statvolt per centimetre is equal in magnitude to one gauss. Thus, for example, an electric field of one statvolt/cm has the same energy density as a magnetic field of one gauss. Likewise, a plane wave propagating in a vacuum has perpendicular electric and magnetic fields such that for every gauss of magnetic field intensity there is one statvolt/cm of electric field intensity. The abvolt is another option for a unit of voltage in the cgs system.
Broader concept
Notation
- statV
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URI
https://vocab.sentier.dev/units/unit/V_Stat
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