Civil Aviation Act, 2009 (Act No. 13 of 2009) Regulations Civil Aviation Regulations, 2011 Part 1 : General Provisions Subpart 2 : Units of Measurement 1.02.1 Units of measurement

 

 

"ampere (A)"

is the constant electric current which, if maintained in two straight parallel conductors of infinite length, of negligible circular cross-section, and placed 1 metre apart in vacuum, would produce between these conductors a force equal to 2 x newton per metre of length;

 

"becquerel (Bq)"

is the activity of a radionuclide having one spontaneous nuclear transition per second;

 

"candela (cd)"

is the luminous intensity, in the perpendicular direction, of a surface of 1/600 000 square metre of black body at the temperature of freezing platinum under a pressure of 101 325 newtons per square metre;

 

"celsius temperature (t0 c)"

is equal to the difference t0c = T- To between two thermodynamic temperatures T and To where To equals 273.15 kelvin;

 

"coulomb (C)"

is the quantity of electricity transported in 1 second by a current of 1 ampere;

 

"degree celsius (°C)"

is the special name for the unit kelvin for use in stating values of Celsius temperature;

 

"farad (F)"

is the capacitance of a capacitor between the plates of which there appears a difference of potential of 1 volt when it is charged by a quantity of electricity equal to 1 coulomb;

 

"foot (ft)"

is the length equal to 0.3048 metres exactly;

 

"gray (Gy)"

is the energy imparted by ionizing radiation to a mass of matter corresponding to 1 joule per kilogram;

 

"henry (H)"

is the inductance of a closed circuit in which an electromotive force of 1 volt is produced when the electric current in the circuit varies uniformly at a rate of 1 ampere per second;

 

"hertz (Hz)"

is the frequency of a periodic phenomenon of which the period is 1 second;

 

"hour h"

is a period between two events measured as one hour= 60min= 3600s ".

[Definition inserted by regulation 4 of Notice No. R. 520, GG 42632, dated 29 March 2019 (Twentieth Amendment of the Civil Aviation Regulations, 2011]

 

"joule (J)"

is the work done when the point of application of a force of 1 newton is displaced a distance of 1 metre in the direction of the force;

 

"kelvin (K")

is the unit of thermodynamic temperature which is the fraction 1/273.16 of the thermodynamic temperature of the triple point of water;

 

"kilogram (kg)"

is the unit of mass equal to the mass of the international prototype of the kilogram;

 

"knot (kt)"

is the speed equal to 1 nautical mile per hour;

 

"litre (L)"

is a unit of volume restricted to the measurement of liquids and gases which is equal to 1 cubic decimeter;

 

"lumen (lm)"

is the luminous flux emitted in a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source having a uniform intensity of 1 candela;

 

"lux (lx)"

is the illuminance produced by a luminous flux of 1 lumen uniformly distributed over a surface of 1 square metre;

 

"metre (m)"

is the distance travelled by light in a vacuum during 1/299 792 458 of a second;

 

"mole (mol)"

is the amount of substance of a system which contains as many elementary entities as there are atoms in 0.012 kilogram of carbon-12;

Note. - When the mole is used, the elementary entities must be specified and may be atoms, molecules, ions, electrons, other particles or specified groups of such particles.

 

"nautical mile (NM)"

is the length equal to 1 852 meters exactly;

 

"newton (N)"

is the force which when applied to a body having a mass of 1 kilogram gives it an acceleration of 1 metre per second squared;

 

"ohm (0)"

is the electric resistance between two points of a conductor when a constant difference of potential of 1 volt, applied between these two points, produces in this conductor a current of 1 ampere, this conductor not being the source of any electromotive force;

 

"pascal (Pa")

is the pressure or stress of 1 newton per square metre;

 

"radian (rad)"

is the plane angle between two radii of a circle which cut off on the circumference an arc equal in length to the radius;

 

"second (s)"

is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom;

 

"siemens (S)"

is the electric conductance of a conductor in which a current of 1 ampere is produced by an electric potential difference of 1 volt;

 

"sievert (Sv)"

is the unit of radiation dose equivalent corresponding to 1 joule per kilogram;

 

"steradian (sr)"

is the solid angle which, having its vertex in the centre of a sphere, cuts off an area of the surface of the sphere equal to that of a square with sides of length equal to the radius of the sphere;

 

"tesla (T)"

is the magnetic flux density given by a magnetic flux of 1 weber per square metre;

 

"tonne (t)"

is the mass equal to 1 000 kilograms;

 

"volt (V)"

is the unit of electric potential difference and electromotive force which is the difference of electric potential between two points of a conductor carrying a constant current of 1 ampere, when the power dissipated between these points is equal to 1 watt;

 

"watt (W)"

is the power which gives rise to the production of energy at the rate of 1 joule per second; and

 

"weber (Wb)"

the magnetic flux which, linking a circuit of one turn produces in it an electromotive force of 1 volt as it is reduced to zero at a uniform rate in 1 second.

 

 

 

[Regulation 1.02.1(4) inserted by regulation 4 of Notice No. R. 409, GG 40831, dated 5 May 2017 (Fifteenth Amendment of the Civil Aviation Regulations, 2017)]

 

[Regulation 1.02.1 substituted by regulation 3 of Notice No. R. 535, GG 36712, dated 30 July 2013 (Fourth Amendment to the Civil Aviation Regulations, 2013)]