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A Study of International Standardization of the International System of Units (SI) for Safe Operation of Aircrafts (항공기 운항안전을 위한 SI의 국제표준 통일안 연구)

  • Lee, Gang-Hyeon;Choi, Sung-Ho;Lee, Yeong-Heok;Kim, Young-Mi
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.87-92
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    • 2014
  • In spite of ICAO's effort to ensure the safety of flight operation by requiring crews, controllers, and other ground aviation staffs to use unified system for units, SI (System International of units), there are still many aircrafts designed, manufactured, and operated based on non-SI units, and many crew training in airline companies are also conducted based on non-SI. Due to this confusion of using different unit systems in international flight operation, many crew members and passengers are exposed to danger. International flights pilots may have confusion while flying different airspaces of different countries that use different unit systems, and this may cause human errors causing accidents and incidents. Due to these reasons, it is needed to establish the standards to reflect non-SI that many countries practically use to SI, which is international standard.

The Preservice Teachers등 Understanding of the International System of Units (국제단위제도에 대한 초등학교 예비 교사들의 이해)

  • 김성규;김윤경
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.27-36
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    • 2004
  • This paper aims to examine how well university students, who are going to be primary school teachers, understand the International System of Units (SI), focusing on seven basic units such as 'm', '㎏', '㏖', 'A', 'K', 's', 'cd'. This study specifically investigates whether the students know the seven units and understand their uses and how they read and learn them. The subjects were 1030 students from the University of Education in Jinju, Geongsangnamdo. Data was collected through a questionnaire which was designed by this researcher and checked by an authority, and the frequency and percentage of reponses to each question were obtained and analysed. Findings show all the students knew very well that 'm' and '㎏' are included in the seven units, compared to the others which low percentage of the students considered as the elements. In terms of understanding of use, the units of the length 'm', the mass '㎏', and the time 's' are well understood, presumably, because they are often used in ordinary life and school, while the amount of substance '㏖', the electric current 'A', the thermodynamic temperature 'K', and the luminous intensity 'cd' are not as well understood. It is probably because 'A', 'cd', and 'K' are hardly used in everyday life. With respect to reading the units, the subjects read 'm', '㎏', '㏖', and's' much better than the others. As for the source of learning them, most students answered they learned them in schools, which implies school education is very important. From these results it is concluded that school education should be accompanied with use in everyday life for understanding and using the units. SI Base Units understanding was investigated by an academic year. According to this investigation, generally the right answer rate differed 4<2<3<1 by an academic year in order. For the Senior, Sophomore appeared the right answer rate more high. because, they learned before in deepening or elementary course on chemistry and physics related with SI Base Units. On the other hand, for the junior answered low rate by this reason that they couldn't remember about SI Base Units that learned before. For the Freshman appeared low rate by this reason that they were not learned or graduated from the department of liberal art in high school.

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A Guide to Education on Unit Transformation in University Liberal Arts Education (대학 교양교육에서 단위변환에 대한 교육 방향 제시)

  • kyung a jeong;hye jeong kim
    • Journal of Integrative Natural Science
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.133-138
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    • 2023
  • After the SI system of units was adopted as an international system of units, Korea made a lot of efforts such as administrative and educational guidance on the traditional units that had been used so far. In addition, from July 1, 2007, the government has cracked down on the denotation of non-statutory units of measurement as standard units or auxiliary units in commercial transactions. However, non-statutory weighing units are still used in other forms. It is believed that this is because non-statutory units (= our traditional units) are permeated in our lives and are convenient to use. The general public still finds it difficult to use and mark the SI system of units correctly. This is not a problem unique to Korea. However, if you look at the books that are currently used as university physics textbooks, the SI system of units and the non-legal units of other countries are marked in such a way that they can be accurately converted. Only the traditional units of our country are disappearing under the pretext of unit unification. Accordingly, we propose that our units should not be neglected in university education, but should be labeled together. The purpose of this study is to raise the necessity of reorganizing the unit conversion between the SI unit system and the traditional life improvement unit, which continues to be the convenience of life, and applying it in university physics education to enable the conversion with our traditional unit, and to educate the importance of the meaning and function of our traditional unit.

Schema Definition and Implementation for Web3D Physical Units (웹3D 물리 단위 스키마 정의와 구현)

  • Kim, Lee-Hyun;Park, Chang-Sup;Lee, Myeong-Won
    • Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.11-19
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    • 2010
  • This paper describes how to define and implement the schema for 3D virtual objects with physical units so that the objects can be compared in virtual environments based on physical properties, such as length, according to the specified units. We define physical units for virtual objects using the International System of Units and based on the X3D (Extensible 3D) specification. The schema must be defined with validation so that it does not violate the original X3D data structure. In this paper, we have extended the original X3D schema with a physical unit specification, and demonstrate the difference between units-specified and non-units-specified 3D scenes using an X3D browser that we developed.

Component Specification of Physical Measurement Units in Web3D (웹3D에서의 물리적 측정 단위 컴포넌트 명세)

  • Kim, Su-Hyun;Lee, Myeong-Won
    • Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.454-458
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    • 2009
  • The technology of virtual environments has been developed with better-quality appearance on a computer display in mind, but without consideration for objects' precise measurements in physical units. With the increased application of computer graphics in a variety of areas, there is a need for precise measurement functionality in addition to visualization. This paper describes the definition of physical properties using measurement units for X3D based virtual objects, to provide their precise physical information in virtual environments. To this end, we have included the physical property node in the X3D specification. The physical measurement units, such as length, mass, time, temperature, etc., are based on SI units (International System of Units).