MEAS106 - SI Units - The Kelvin

This course is an introduction to the SI unit of thermodynamic temperature - the Kelvin. The course outline is as follows:

• Introduction
• Thermodynamic Temperature and the Triple Point
• The history of temperature
• The definition of the Kelvin
• The realization of the temperature scale
• Derived Units
• Summary

This course is a fifth in a series of seven courses on the SI units. The courses in this series are:

• MEAS102 - SI Units - The Second
• MEAS103 - SI Units - The meter
• MEAS104 - SI Units - The kilogram
• MEAS105 - SI Units - The Ampere
• MEAS106 - SI Units - The Kelvin
• MEAS107 - SI Units - The mole
• MEAS108 - SI Units - The candela

This course covers some of the ASQ CCT body of knowledge and is worth 0.1 Recertification Units (RU) towards ASQ CCT recertification.

The prerequisites for this course are MEAS101, MEAS102, MEAS103, MEAS104, and MEAS105. Most of this course is accesible with an understanding of algebra.

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