Leo (unit)

Physical unit
Unit name	Leo
Unit symbol	${\displaystyle \mathrm {leo} }$
Formula symbol	${\displaystyle a}$
dimension	${\displaystyle {\mathsf {L\;T^{-2}}}}$
In SI units	${\displaystyle \mathrm {1\,leo=10\;{\frac {m}{s^{2}}}} }$
Named after	Galileo Galilei

The Leo ( unit symbol : leo ), named after the first name of the Italian physicist Galileo Galilei , was a unit for acceleration proposed by the English metrologist Francis John Welsh Whipple .

1 leo = 10 m / s²

swell

• HG Jerrard & DB McNeill: A Dictionary of Scientific Units. Including dimensionless numbers and scales , Chapman and Hall, London / New York, 1986, p. 74.
• Napier Shaw: The Air and its Ways , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1923, p. 13.