Units of Kinematic Viscosity - Maple Help

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Units of Kinematic Viscosity

Description

 • Kinematic viscosity has the dimension length squared per time. The SI composite unit of kinematic viscosity is the square meter per second.
 • Maple knows the units of kinematic viscosity listed in the following table.

 Name Symbols Context Alternate Spellings Prefixes stokes St standard * SI

 An asterisk ( * ) indicates the default context, an at sign (@) indicates an abbreviation, and under the prefixes column, SI indicates that the unit takes all SI prefixes, IEC indicates that the unit takes IEC prefixes, and SI+ and SI- indicate that the unit takes only positive and negative SI prefixes, respectively.  Refer to a unit in the Units package by indexing the name or symbol with the context, for example, stokes[standard] or St[standard]; or, if the context is indicated as the default, by using only the unit name or symbol, for example, stokes or St.
 The unit of kinematic viscosity is defined as follows.
 A stokes is defined as a centimeter squared per second.

Examples

 > $\mathrm{convert}\left('\mathrm{stokes}','\mathrm{dimensions}','\mathrm{base}'=\mathrm{true}\right)$
 $\frac{{{\mathrm{length}}}^{{2}}}{{\mathrm{time}}}$ (1)
 > $\mathrm{convert}\left(1,'\mathrm{units}','\mathrm{stokes}',\frac{{'m'}^{2}}{'s'}\right)$
 $\frac{{1}}{{10000}}$ (2)