Mayer (unit)

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The Mayer ( unit symbol : mayer ), named after the German doctor and physicist Julius Robert von Mayer , was an internationally unaccepted unit of heat capacity proposed by Lorenzo A. Richards before 1969 for a system that heats 1 ° C by 1 joule becomes.

1 mayer = 1 joule / ° C = 1 joule / Kelvin

literature

  • Peter Kurzweil: The Vieweg-Einheit-Lexikon , Braunschweig / Wiesbaden, Vieweg 2000, p. 262