The circuit was designed by two monolithic integrated circuits to measure the level of audio signals whose unit of measurement is known as volume unit. Volume Unit – an entity equal to a decibel for ...

There’s been some confusion over the size of today’s explosion in China’s Tianjin province, with some people mistakenly thinking it was the largest non-nuclear explosion of all time. It was not — that ...

When someone tells you they'll be "back in two shakes!" they are guaranteed to take much, much longer than that — at least if we're talking shakes in the sense used by physicists. The shake is a unit ...

I just got my water bill.<BR><BR>My current reading is supposed to be 7958 my last reading is supposed to be 6148.<BR><BR>I don't know what unit of measure these numbers are in, and how I used 1810 ...

A version of this article appeared in the Dec. 2011/Jan. 2012 issue of Test & Measurement World. See the PDF. Listing 1 (next page) contains script code. Source-measureunits (SMUs), often used in ...